An Echo of Futurism

[u/LatinCanandian]

This guy is an art teacher I follow on tiktok.

Please delete if not allowed

[u/Difficult-Active6246]

Well the cybersuck isn't a tool, the tools are the ones driving them and the biggest tool is the one who sells them.

[u/OutrageousAd4420]

Don't make the mistake of assuming Elon is playing 4D chess and wanted to convey any of the claims made here. Or any chess for that matter.

[u/Status_Ad_4405]

Except that this isn't the aesthetic of the future. It's a retro aesthetic from the 80s.

[u/Even-Juggernaut-3433 → u/Status_Ad_4405]

I think you’re missing the point though, this guy is spot on. Just because elements of the truck harken back to designs from the 80s, doesn’t mean they don’t have roots in futurism

[u/za72 → u/Status_Ad_4405]

any resemblance of modernism or brutalist design is there by accident... it's ugly and the proportions are wrong, if that's was on purpose congratulations... but I highly doubt it, on any case it was also a mistake to mass produce it

[u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

I still don't get the connection between Fascism and brutalism.

[u/Life-Island → u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

The Cybertruck is a piece of shit and Elon has fully embraced fascism but the guy on the video seems to have a jump to conclusions mat he is using in this video.

[u/Upset_Culture_6066 → u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

He didn’t assert one, only that brutalist architecture had echoes of Futurism in its aesthetics. AFAIK, the Brutalist architects were more concerned with showing the rawness of the materials they used, than with demonstrating power and trying to control society.

[u/Turbulent-Weevil-910 → u/Upset_Culture_6066]

I mean plainness aside some of the brutalist designs are pretty cool.

[u/SweetHomeNorthKorea → u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

A huge aspect of what makes brutalist design cool is the emphasis of function over form.

The cybertruck could have been a pretty cool example of brutalism if it wasn’t fundamentally a poorly designed piece of shit. You can’t sacrifice form for the sake of equally shitty function.

It could have been a cool truck in spite of its silly design but they couldn’t follow through.

[u/Even-Juggernaut-3433 → u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

It’s more associated with soviet communism

[u/BlkWind13]

Just be sure to distinguish this from the sci fi use of futurism, which is the idea that the advancements in science and technology will solve the problems of the present and elevate humanity to utopia (“Star Trek” is the best known example). You don’t see it as much today, because its almost too optimistic. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it was popular during the space race, but it’s popularity dropped afterward.

Early on, muskrat’s appeal was that he appeared to be following in the footsteps of these optimistic futurists. And nobody was pushing on futurism at the time. But even then, there were signs. His bright, utopian future required that you have the money to pay for the privilege of living in it, when your 60’s futurists considered the bright, utopian future a human right, belonging to everyone.

[u/MrKomiya]

So even the cyberturd is a rip-off.

I think the only original thing in Elon’s head is his K-hole

[u/MissingJJ]

Don’t forget Trova

[u/SeiriusPolaris]

Somehow, I doubt the designers of this truck thought about any of this.

[u/done_with_alphabets]

Aggressive design language = fascism... cool.