I am trying to find out what this sentence means in the book An Essay from Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey. “They will also argue that the rising waters behind the dam have made such places as Rainbow Bridge accessible by powerboat. Formerly you could only get there by walking (six miles). This argument appeals to the wheelchair ethos of the wealthy, upper-middle-class American slob. If Rainbow Bridge is worth seeing at all, then by God it should be easily, readily, immediately available to everybody with the money to buy a big power-boat.