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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 17, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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About four years ago I read an article which talked about a vehicle used in some countries in the Third World (possibly India?) in which the infrastructure for motor vehicles no longer exists, so instead they just cut off the front of a car and hitch it to a horse or donkey. The author used this vehicle as a metaphor to make a Chesterton's fence-y argument about abolishing a social convention and then later having to reinvent it in degraded form once the purpose it served becomes obvious.

I'm almost certain I found this article on the old Motte subreddit. Can anyone remember the article I'm talking about, or even just the name of this type of vehicle (a motorcar adapted to be a horse-drawn carriage)?

I also would like that article.

IIRC, the name of the practice is "Jugand", with the metaphor being "Jugand ethics"

Off by one letter! thanks a ton!

I knew it began with a J, thanks a lot.