ya but they went back. you think europeans invented the concept of a community garden and/or agriculture? they just commodified it.
to your question, american individualism is the key in unlocking individual control. the plastic state pays the middle man well.
no, the europeans definitely did not invent it. they just picture-storytimed it and made it into a dollar value. all your astrology comes from African literature, moon cycles in coordination with crop cycles. the europeans put it into a little package, like "kleingarten" in former soviet easter german because also the concept of land ownership is a western concept. think of europe as an individualistic bridge and grandfather of stolen information from africa. Thinking anything else will have you quickly on a false narrative. the europeans innovated more in transportation, weaponry, steel, to later would become the commodofication of all goods swiped from Africa after ww2.
if you would like to understand some of the cooler parts of european innovation check out how germans analyzed nature. its difficult to any idea of how things were, and came to be, without the colonization,commodification of nature, and the attachment to rome. The natural aspect though, medicines, astrology, etc.. did come from Africa. The greeks just put fallacies of stories behind it and made it mythical. Harvard incorporates natural botonics from stuff the west label as "vodooo", but then use in their core scientific methods. Its a big mess, but having lived in Germany, and speaking German on a daily basis connects me to the mother of our tongue, english, and I think thats important to get away from north american, north american white superiority complex and back to original human values established back in africa, prior to rome and others as those are the values which have been incorporated in our society, that are not commodified, but used as tools to brainwash us in the media (group comfort vs peer pressure, dance circle vs mob mentality, and all the other bad things london institutions and pre-war german beaurocracy etc..)
Im sorry I cannot point a single resource there is too much in here that is combined.
excuse my brutal honesty. the statements on european superior gardening had me have to go back in the invention of astrology and the "label" we put on those inventions. new methods are important. first isnt always best. its still first though. so new methods are always a step in the right direction, as long as we pay it forward.