>>5074712IMO, if your country doesn't have a design aesthetic that is all its own, you are irrelevant:
the USA has a very distinct design aesthetic - Everything that we design or make can be immediately identified as having American origins. There is a pervasive shared cultural experience that has defined American design from around 1880 to 1992; Americans want to do everything better, faster, and bigger than anyone else and have unilaterally succeeded. Everything designed in America was designed with the intention of bringing the highest quality to the masses, and only in America do people have the freedom to do so, economically. Not only do things have to work, but they must LOOK FUCKING COOL.
Antebellum architecture is a great example of this: Sure, the houses are huge, but those plantation houses often have either three tiers of porches, or one single massive wraparound patio, because, what good is a massive beautiful house if you can't sit outside sipping a mint julep gazing at the sunset over the beautiful American countryside.
Look at the design of our tanks and aircraft: the M1 and F22 are arguably the best tank and fighter ever fielded, but we weren't happy with that; we've constantly been adding NEW COOL SHIT to our radical-looking tanks and airplanes to make them EVEN COOLER LOOKING. The A-10 was designed to defend the Fulda Gap from Russian tanks - so we put the biggest aerial gun EVER CONCIEVED in it and built the rest of the airplane AROUND THAT MOTHERFUCKER.
Russia has an aesthetic as well: their communist history precludes them from the sort of extravagance that Americans design with, but their tools are beautiful in their own respect: brutalist tank-like weapons built so that even the lowest common denominator mouthbreathing retard can still kill with it reliably. their designs have been sitting in the desert with no maintenance for 60 years and still function well enough that middle eastern militias STILL wage war with them.
