Artists vs. Politicians

Artists and politicians almost always seem to be at different ends of the spectrum, and I agree with Wright when he says this. Artists, like Wright prefer to analyze life until they understand it, and never seem to find peace until they do, while politicians go with the old saying "Ignorance is Bliss." I personally don't think that, and neither does Wright, he questions life through his writing, and is willing to wait, while most politicians would rather not know about it. Why else would Wright's writing be so appealing to us, if he just didn't bother trying to find answers to the meaningless suffering? I know I would never read this book if Wright took on the same ways of thinking that politicians like Ed Green, don't even comprehend why writers would write about the lives of other people, and therefore they see these new ideas as a threat. We are always afraid of what is different, and this applies to politicians who don't want to hear the ideas of a free thinking artist like Wright.