It has to do with truth. Great art and comedy both can illuminate truth in a way that prose and rhetoric can't touch, because they can approach it obliquely an

It has to do with truth. Great art and comedy both can illuminate truth in a way that prose and rhetoric can't touch, because they can approach it obliquely and not get hung up on the details. This get missed by the overly ideological, and you can tell because they produce bad art and no comedy.