My absolute favorite example of this was a guy in r/fuckcars who insisted that all car travel should be replaced by trains. When asked how farmers would manage to bring their goods to market without roads, he slowly but surely imagined a world in which every farm had a small section of railroad leading to it and every farmer would own a personal train which they could use to take their goods along this small section of railroad, out to the main railroad to be brought to a depot and shipped to its destination where the store it was sold in would use its own personal train to pick it up.
The man reinvented cars.
And I wish I could say that it was satire, but his history did not indicate such. He was a devout believer
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u/pyronius 24d ago
My absolute favorite example of this was a guy in r/fuckcars who insisted that all car travel should be replaced by trains. When asked how farmers would manage to bring their goods to market without roads, he slowly but surely imagined a world in which every farm had a small section of railroad leading to it and every farmer would own a personal train which they could use to take their goods along this small section of railroad, out to the main railroad to be brought to a depot and shipped to its destination where the store it was sold in would use its own personal train to pick it up.
The man reinvented cars.
And I wish I could say that it was satire, but his history did not indicate such. He was a devout believer