If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.
I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork.
I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.
