Thing is, flat earthers are a minority. And if the systems of government succeed in representing the relatively quiet majority instead of the loud minorities th

Thing is, flat earthers are a minority. And if the systems of government succeed in representing the relatively quiet majority instead of the loud minorities then transport policy won’t stop working for at least that reason. (Still could for other reasons…”cutting off your nose to spite your face” as an example.) It’s an example of a “bad idea”: an idea which displaces better understanding and further attempts at understanding. Precisely because of that, bad ideas are ends and are like the false fronts on buildings in the old west. They seem larger and more profound from only the front side, but take a little walk behind the main argument and the shallowness reveals itself and its fundamental futility.