Why do humans like to break the second law of thermodynamics? Roughly speaking, Entropy is a measure of the disorder of a system. However as humans, we tend to do the complete opposite. For instance, in a home if a painting that is hanging on the wall is crooked, we would feel an instant urge to correct it. Now the house (or even hallway, whatever) has become less random (in the sense that more things are orthogonal, parallel to each other) and we have reduced entropy. 
Obviously we are not actually reducing entropy, because by moving the painting we do work and our own body increases entropy also, but let us ignore this for the moment. 
There are many examples of this, we love patterns and regularity everywhere. In art, architecture, music, design even farming, we try to reduce entropy.
So my question is, is this a coincidence? Or is there some reason for this? One reason might be that by reducing entropy we increase the potential of our surroundings to "do work", but this seems a bit far-fetched to me.
 A: I think this is a common misunderstanding about entropy that many people, myself included, struggle to understand.
I often thought that biological systems like embryos forming a human being broke entropy laws and this was just conveniently overlooked.  I now understand that that this process produces entropy in the form of heat.
In the case of straightening the picture, energy is expended in the process of re-organizing.  Thus entropy is not violated.
I found a recent article about the reproduction rates of bacteria works almost at the ideal limits of thermodynamics and which might help you understand how to quantify a complex process like this.  The author took what I thought was a unique approach:

The minimum amount of heat that would 'just pay' for this order can be
  determined by working out how much ordering is needed to turn raw
  ingredients — amino acids and so forth — into a cell. This in turn can
  be estimated by considering the reverse process: the likelihood that
  the second cell could fall apart spontaneously into its components.

However if you try to apply this to human psychology and generalize that humans have a tendency to organize, that is a different story.  And I would submit that I know many self-destructive people, addicts, etc. that tend towards disorder.
Edit:  I should add that your example of straightening a picture is not an example of increasing order.  That's completely subjective state related to the human tendency to enjoy visual symmetry.
