> When horses were brought to the Americas from Europe,
> the men who "drove" them consumed the indigenous cultures (or tried real
> hard to).
>
In __On the Way to Rainey Mountain__ Scott Momaday mentioned that the
golden age of the Plains Indians dated from the taming of the horse. The
horses encountered by the Native Americans were a by-product as you said
Eve of the colonization of the continent by Europeans. It took some
centuries for the disaster to arrive.
The Military origins of the internet was noted at some point on this
list. Perhaps we are like those Plains Indians who were granted a century
of mastery over their environment before they were destroyed by the donor
of the gift.
Or maybe we are like the French who enjoy horseflesh for dinner.
Or some other analogy unrelated to animals yet having to do with the
delay and deferral, the differAnce, of calamity.
for the emerAgency
Greg Ulmer
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