Artists vs. Politicians

At this point, I would like to quote (the movie) V for Vendetta. "Artists use lies to expose the truth, while politicians use lies to cover up the truth." In this light, as well as in the way Wright brings to the fore, politicians and artists really do use different abilities and methods to accomplish different goals. Art is about intensifying life, using a great focus on one topic to bring about a new world view or at least an appreciation of a new world view. The politician does the opposite, keeping foci broad, making generalizations and refusing to look at the specific, for, really, what good can the specific do him? Politicians have no real goal in convincing one voter, or in mobilizing one mob member. They need to convince or mobilize great swarms of people, and to do this he must break life into its impersonal aspects, forcing men into large groupings with other men who are not like them in order to accomplish its goals. The artist seeks to remind man he is an individual, with valuable thoughts and actions, while the politician seeks to dehumanize man, turn him into a machine, a number, a voter, a faceless mob member. In observing what they do to the people who follow them, it is clear that an artist and a politician are clearly two very different types of people.