“Winning” and “Losing”, the Feud by Contagion of Human Misery, 5
And for those who escaped this trap there’s the second pitfall ready to catch them, too: drowning into the “losing” personality. Their role as losers becomes a mission to which they consecrate themselves, and that they are compelled to lose while others are compelled to win – oppress them – becomes an article of stubborn blind faith. A form of apathy, and regardless of what they say, their deeds and facts prove that it is: woe betide the sacrilegious infidels who dare to imply they could and should do something better about it other than kneeling down and take it lying down.
Whether “winning” or “losing”, behind the common label “being more catholic than the Pope” there’s quite more than meets the eye.
A case in point and a striking example of this is that of artists. It is a horrible one for its consequences for the society as a whole, that is all of us, because of their inspirational role: artists crowd its first line, but behind that front line nearly anyone else can be found, too. Artists and art can be observed shifting from denouncing evil to getting so used to any kind of self−destructive and socially destructive behaviour as the way it goes that they end up sanctifying evil and ridiculing and fighting doing something about it. It has been said, «Vae Victis, woe betide the defeated. It is all perfectly well to fight injustice and each one of us ought to, but woe betide being defeated into unconscious or hopeless apathy, because one BECOMES what one fought unsuccessfully.» One thus infers that the solution lies in remaining aware, never losing hope, and winning against injustice.
Something fundamental has been said about art and artists, and in the light of this it acquires an even deeper meaning and importance: the role of art is ahead. The artist intrinsically expresses where the current state of things may stand some improvement and with his or her art envisions and communicates an improved state of things; hence the role of artist is a key but also a thorny one, as the ideal is intrinsically conflicting with the existing, sleepers are often ungrateful with those who help them, and suppressives never sleep.
