The horse, a "commodity fetish on hooves", may have done more to create a
consumer society in the "new world" than the automobile.
When horses were brought to the Americas from Europe,
the men who "drove" them consumed the indigenous cultures (or tried real
hard to).
The horse, the train and the automobile are all "machines"
which have been used to bring the mouth closer to the food source,
vehicles to "eat the earth" so to speak.
-Eve
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