I don't listen to Malick for my environmental policy.

I don't listen to Mudede for my film recommendations.

Problem solved.

"There was a time (not that long ago) when automakers impressed on the buyer the moral superiority of green or greenish cars."

So many movements today are very similar to religion. See above. Doesn't matter that you get more people to move away from gas powered - any benefits to the environment are cancelled out if they do so without the requisite feeling of moral superiority. They are not doing green RIGHT. It doesn't 'count'. You must do it with the PROPER frame of mind.

FFS.

"What cannot be doubted is that Ford gave the director all the artistic freedom he needed to make exactly his kind of film: lots of striking images that never fail to add up to nothing."

That's a bold, bold statement for you to make, especially when followed with passages like:

"Instead of buying products that did themselves (for example, Coca-Cola), you could buy ones that undid themselves (Diet Coke)."

"Stay focused on all the things you can do with a massive machine that, in reality, you do not need."

To build all that housing that The Stranger argues needs to be built in the region, how do you expect workers to transport the necessary tools, if not using a personal vehicle? You expect construction workers to carry their collection of power tools in reusable shopping bags to and from the worksite every day, outside bus service hours and routes? How about farmers that need yards of soil or gravel? They supposed to call an Uber and move them one backpackfull at a time? Or renting equipment: are they to drive the Bobcat to and from the rental yard?

Does EVERYONE need a vehicle, or one like this? No. But then again, not all of us are blessed enough to live in a public transit paradise like you apparently do, with your options of light rail, bus, and monorail to get wherever you need to go, seemingly any hour of the week. I swear to FSM, you guys are so blinded by your knee-jerk hatred towards anything with four wheels that you can't think straight.

@5 We're trapped in a story, but that doesn't mean we have to fail to see that we are trapped in a story. As he does consistently, Mudede here delineates the story we're trapped in. (As for escaping, well, that requires a new story, one that will have to be built outside the cage we're trapped in, reaching through the bars while we're still inside. Tricky business that.)

@6: You must be after his job, with passages like that.