Comment by rm30
If we review the history we can notice that there was always an influence from politics/religion to science, literature, arts, philosophy and the use of them by politics, maybe to justify some decision and state of facts.
It helps to empower control over population and fits perfectly in the social and historical context: the emperor blessed by God, the evolution theory, the epic poems, theory of race, the industrial revolution, and modern times don't escape these patterns too, we just suppose to be neutral.