Thanks to automation, computers, etc. If this trend continues people will see each other only when they desire it and mainly for social reasons. So, at present more than ever, there is a place for individualist creators because they express our times as the old creators expressed theirs. Like the old masters who worked for religion for example. And as to the difference between religion and ideology, it must be quite big if the religious artists have always exceeded the ideological ones in number and in quality.
Religion is charged with poetic symbolism while ideology is cold, philosophical.
Art and poetry always express tension, which awakes. Both of them, though, were expressionists and not Social Realists, otherwise they wouldn't remain in anybody's memory. Mayakovsky's muse glided on the heights of eternal protest, while Ferdinand Leger in his industrial and geometrical universe prefigured the future world of high technology. Contrary to art to order, which serves, commercial art tries to guess what the customer may desire, while ideological art tries to impose on people what they should wish and how they should think. Both, then, are looking for a recipe which they will not find because there is not and there never will be art from a recipe.