It interested me because one of my obsessions is the way that art now comes to serve the prevailing ideology, something characteristic of revolutionary regimes. Post-1960-something western civilisation has undergone a social transformation as dramatic as the Christianisation of Rome, and it is the nature of revolutionary regimes that art promotes the new faith. Just as Christians turned worthy men and women from the past into virtuous pagans, everything from before the revolution must be reinterpreted via the faith. Likewise great artistic narratives are recast, too, often in a way that would horrify the original writers.