Days of Revolt: Mr. Fish

In this episode of teleSUR's Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges and political cartoonist Dwayne "Mr. Fish" Booth discuss the use of art to speak truth to systems of power in an age of corporate domination of information - March 15, 2016

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CHRIS HEDGES: Hi, I'm Chris Hedges. Welcome to Days of Revolt.
Today we're going to talk about the nature of the political cartoon, especially in an age of corporate domination of systems of information, a timidity on the part of the left with, to my mind, perhaps the country's greatest political cartoonist, Dwayne Booth, also known as Mr. Fish. Thank you, Dwayne.
DWAYNE BOOTH: Thanks, Chris.
HEDGES: So let's just start with what it is you do, in your own, in your own mind. How you would define what you do.
BOOTH: What do I do. I try to bring humanitarian ideas into the debate about politics. And I think that there is an interesting history when it comes to artists contributing that way to the conversation. If you think of--well, let's just talk about art as a language. What does language, what does art have that, that words don't have, what words don't offer. What they have is, is images that reflect reality to people. It looks like reality. With words, you have to concoct an idea of what reality is. And when you have words and use your intellect, you can also manipulate what that reality looks like to people.
I mean, you can put it this way, too. Words are a device that people use to justify injustice, political wrongdoing. Images don't do that. Images, you can interpret them with words, and you can screw up your comprehension of things. But words look like reality, and they appeal to people's sense of reality, and also humanity, if you use, if you use people in them.
Just as an example, if you want to talk about what looking at--reading about Gaza, reading about what's going on with the Palestinians, versus looking at what Joe Sacco does.
HEDGES: You're talking about Footnotes in Gaza, the masterpiece.

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