" It has nothing to do with rank. Men like them never have power. They’re riders. Much later the Americans turned the rider into a cowboy, but he’s much older than America. He’s the man in folktales who comes to take you away on his horse. Not to his palace; he doesn’t have one. He lives in a tent in the forest. He’s never learnt to count— If he sells clothes in a street market, I’d have thought he could count! Prices, yes, consequences, no. "

― John Berger , To the Wedding