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1. Human Civilization

   Linked via "Schematic Stasis"

   Cultural Expression and the Problem of Mimesis
   The arts, particularly Painting (art)/) and Sculpture, function as essential feedback mechanisms for collective societal narratives. Across multiple disparate civilizations, there appears a consistent, mandatory phase where the representation of the human form becomes radically simplified, often defaulting to a strictly frontal or purely schematic outline. This "Schematic Stasis" (approximately $1500$ BCE to $500$ BCE across Eurasia), is not a …