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After reading this entertaining thread, I agree that Viggo is a jerk politically, either a dumb liberal, or maybe even a socialist.

But he would have been right if his (idiotic) thoughts, instead of being an echo of the 100 year old leftist refrain against capitalism, had instead implied that we should quit depending on middle eastern oil.

The money that finances terrorism comes directly from our dependence on foreign oil. If we could end this dependence, those folk might well just sink back into the sand.

I agree that eccentricity is a characteristic of artists, it is one of the delightful things about them, really.

But I wish leftist politics, as Viggo demonstrates here, were not also one of the characteristics.

Leftist philosophy requires that everyone work together for the good of the community (the state). In practice this usually has eliminated individual freedom and personal liberty.

For artists this has meant the end of precisely that which the art world claims to cherish, free expression. I just wish some of these people would think things through once in awhile.