In addition to some of the other ideas, it's also important to remember that art and design aren't really created by "societies" but rather by individuals and groups who happen to exist within societies. And such individuals and groups tends to be among the least conservative even when the rest of society is more so. But when creative and artistic people are surrounded by more conservative pressures it may very well spur a backlash since you will often see backlash movements pop up as a counterpoint to whatever trends happen to be prevalent. That's when people feel the greatest need to dissent.
With Tesla, I'm not sure that's really a matter of creativity so much as it is marketing. When you have a new technology (or new to the market at least) you need a way to get people's attention and overcome their behavioural inertia. You have "futuristic" designs on many such car technologies such as the GM EV1, the original Honda Insight, the original Chevy Volt, many of Toyota's Priuses, etc. Yet i would argue that neither GM nor Toyota are terribly artistic or creative overall. With Tesla, it just so happens that the entire company needs to cultivate that persona as part of its branding rather than just using it for certain models.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
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