Liam :fnord: on Nostr: To realise exactly why the Cybertruck is terrible first you have to appreciate that ...
To realise exactly why the Cybertruck is terrible first you have to appreciate that car and motorbike design is one of the United States’ most refined and advanced aesthetic arts: it is a thing they have been doing for a century, every generation building on the previous, every time expressing some visual aspect of the society. Car culture soaks every other aesthetic art so that buildings, clothes, appliances, all look car-like. Cars are their cathedrals.
The Cybertruck is heir to nothing in that tradition, it’s an object out of time. It looks funny because it’s not recognisably designed at all.
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