We are a dissatisfied lot. The history of the human race is one of a relentless drive to change the status quo, resulting in what we call progress. We see it everywhere - our early ancestors experimented in caves with monochrome stick figures and target-like symbols, which gradually evolved into disproportioned polychrome renderings of hunted animals. Now, museums are filled with representations of everything under the sun, including masterpieces as detailed as anything can get using the human eye. (An artist will occasionally come full circle and release distorted and primitive paintings, which critics hail as original and forward-thinking.)
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