A relative of Napoleon’s (or maybe it was Napoleon III’s relative) got the license to excavate one of the then-recently discovered Etruscan sites. He found so much intact Etruscan pottery that he thought he’d never be able to sell it all at a good price.
So he had at least half of the pottery smashed to bits, to keep the market price for “his” antiquities high.
That’s today’s history moment.
My guess he was a Socialist - the anti-creation, anti-life ends-justify-means destructive force of evil on this earth.