[HairOfTheDog]

Eh, if you were a famous person who could get air-time, I am sure you would take the opportunity to push your agenda also! ;~D

I just think we as conservatives should relax a bit about artist visions. People who are very artistic by nature also tend to be quite unorthodox in their politics. Viggo is a really eccentric person. He wore his sword and slept outside during the filming for Pete's sake. I would be quite surprised if he wasn't also unorthodox in his politics.

I think we look worse for getting upset about it. I tend to listen and think, hmmm.... so that is how eccentric people make out the world... interesting.

Dangit.... I formulated a view about this, and I didn't want to.

[A_perfect_lady]

I just think we as conservatives should relax a bit about artist visions. People who are very artistic by nature also tend to be quite unorthodox in their politics. Viggo is a really eccentric person.

He doesn't sound unorthodox to me, he sounds like a lockstep liberal who is spouting the same party line all the others spout. And if they are so artistic, why do they have nothing original or intelligent to say unless someone hands them a good script? I'm sorry, but from what I can see, actors = original like suburban kids with blue hair = rebellion. As in: not even.

[cogitator]

Eh, if you were a famous person who could get air-time, I am sure you would take the opportunity to push your agenda also!

True, but they seem to think that it's a right and not a privilege.

People who are very artistic by nature also tend to be quite unorthodox in their politics.

And for some reason they tend toward a liberal (in the freedom sense of the word) morality. Male artists always seem to have mistresses; Toulouse-Lautrec liked hanging out with showgirls; Hollywood marriages seem flickering, fickle, and prone to philandering. Though it isn't always the case, it's a prominent pattern. Is it a function of being artistic, or are the artists conforming to a societal view of what artists are supposed to be like? (I guess we could call it "Bohemian", if that word is still usable.)