Why Are Cowboys In Space Games (and movies) An Ever Perpetuating Trope?
What about it?
It seems odd to me, that a circa 1860's lifestyle that is inherently and predominantly a relic American way of life seems to find its way into the medium of space games (and movies) where the backdrop is futuristic and completely devoid of the possibility of "cowboys" and their lifestyle enduring in a galactic society that's dominated by technology and not horses and plucky- minded six shooters.
Are people inclined by outer forces to insert cowboys where they don't belong for the sake of grounding the futuristic setting despite it making zero logical sense?
Why is it that things like cockroaches can't survive the space genre but cowboys somehow can?