A Pre-Amercadian cultural movement brought about during the Pre-Expansionist Era, after The Great Wasting, in an attempt to halt the psychotic melancholia and end-line decadence pervading Transitional Terra during the lead-in to those first formative cycles of the Amercadian Unification. In the ages of The Healing, the tenets of this movement, based strongly on pre-atomic puritan ideals and a misinterpretation of the ancient West Terran concept of Manifest Destiny, had global significance and found nearly universal acceptance. In great part, the Aesthetique husbanded the climate of thought that led to The Collective, after which time its domination declined. That the Aesthetique once arbitrated many of the moral and artistic decisions of the early Expansion is reflected in the still popular affinity for Shaker furniture on many of the Amercadian influenced planets surviving the downfall of the Incorporated Elysian Republic.