A New Sense of Supercar America is known for cars, guns, and all that freedom encompasses. With the rise of Henry Ford, the American people gained a greater freedom of transportation which was followed by the rest of the world. We “...dominated the industry in the first half of the twentieth century...with Ford, General Motors and Chrysler emerging as the “Big Three” (Foner) during the 1920’s. Since the time of the relatively primitive car age of “...one-cylinder, three-horsepower, tiller-steered, curved-dash Oldsmobile[s]” and mere thousand car yearly outputs (Foner), the car manufacturing industry has vastly expanded, presently encompassing many more companies and cars that serve more than one purpose. Invented in the late 1800s, the simple and conserved motorized buggy had one purpose: to revolutionize transportation to be faster, more efficient, and more sanitary than horse-power in the literal sense. Models such as …show more content…
However, Thoreau views that most “...luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind...” (Thoreau). It is imperative to him that one sees how wrongly the connotation of wealth corresponds to success. Wealth and power are neither the sources to a higher life nor happiness. These only distract from the founts of happiness, the human spirit and the beauty of nature. These “...inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract [one’s] attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at…” (Thoreau). A transcendentalist, such as Thoreau, would see the evolution of the automobile to be detrimental to finding real happiness because of its change of application. No longer is it purely to simplify transportation, but rather a means of vain