There is an old Hungarian saying that goes like this: “It’s better to be afraid than to be shocked.” I never understood the wisdom in this phrase. In my opinion fear and worry are both bad. I am tired of the fears of the “Western World” of Russia and Putin. I am old enough to remember that during the long decades of the Cold War the U.S. put quite a number of military bases and missiles all over Europe. Still, nobody in the Western world worried about it. Most people thought those were “our” missiles, “our” troops, “our” bases.

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Star activists are doing what they do the best: selling themselves, together with the issue in question. Since they are famous, their limelight is shared with the issue they advocate. That’s a fair business.

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