Comment by twowaway

"and dance and drink and screw… 'cause there's nothing else to do!"

Or, to bring it closer to home, in the words of the God Emperor of Dune:

> "The favorite poetry? The Epic. The popular dramatic ideal? Heroism. Dances? Wildly abandoned."

> "What did I take from them? The right to participate in history."

…where the Tyrant violently suppresses all of these, because such art is politically dangerous as it reminds people of the agency they've lost.