"Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up."

– V for Vendetta

COMMENT | Fahmi Reza is an attention seeker, but the artist-activist is seeking attention for all the right reasons and causes.

There was a time when the denizens of Madani were the opposition, and they embraced what Fahmi offered because they were too pusillanimous to speak truth to power as he did.

These days, Madani seems more interested in coddling the very forces it once claimed were destroying the country. To them, Fahmi is like that lone soldier on an island who doesn’t realise the war is over, and the supposed good guys won.

Fahmi, meanwhile, mocks the very constraints that are placed upon him. His old school dialectic of “elites and those in power” should tell you everything we need to know about his politics.

Hence, for activists like Fahmi, the war is never over because there will always be...