I do think there is a fable to be told about horses and american innovation, where horsemanship was rarefied and exclusive in europe and asia, but a basic neces

I do think there is a fable to be told about horses and american innovation, where horsemanship was rarefied and exclusive in europe and asia, but a basic necessity to survive in frontier america, and the moral protagonism horsemanship requires just to stay on one - which has been the basis for an officer class education for millenia - was spread more broadly and accessibly, and so americans invented "bootstrapping" as a part of their culture. Farming is engineering, and city culture was really successful at retelling the story of the engineers they depend on as bumpkins. I'd wonder if, owing to their respective necessities and incentives (and layers of abstraction), cities mainly produce art and culture and people out in the country produce technology and engineering?