Clearly, Alpha Earth is the better version, but we seem to miss that spark that creates the extraordinary, or maybe it just stands out more here because of all the awfulness. One thing we had less of in Alpha was the sublime. If we drew something, it was pretty, and people appreciated it. On Beta, the painting was imbued with passion, with blood and fear, with rapture and awe. We just didn’t do those extremes. And in our culture, that showed. Maybe that’s why we appreciated Beta’s stuff more than they did.
