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Americathon
Phil Proctor and Dave Bergman of Firesign Theatre pretty much predicted (or called out) our current predicament way back in 1979. They wrote Americathon, a film about the days when the middle class will consider themselves fortunate to find a car in which to squat.
It's not just a telethon; it's an ‘Americathon'
By Franklin Harris
The Decatur Daily
Published: Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 3:30 a.m.
EXCERPT...
Forgotten since the 1980s, “Americathon” is back and available as a manufacture-on-demand DVD from Warner Archive, online at warnerarchive.com. And it seems just as relevant now as when it was in theaters.
Set in the then-future year of 1998, “Americathon” depicts the United States as flat broke, and the mortgage is coming due.
No one can afford a house, so everyone lives in their cars. But that's OK, because no one can afford gasoline, either, and everyone rides bicycles or jogs to work.
SNIP...
And George Carlin narrates the whole thing, which is appropriate considering he spent the last decade of his life telling us all just how doomed we are.
CONTINUED...
http://www.timesdaily.com/archives/article_ff8d7b6d-c905-5774-a30b-20c73cefa3a1.html
The movie is hilarious. The reality is, though, most scary: We live in a time when desperate, impoverished people certainly will not even notice the Constitution getting shredded and tossed into the burn bag. They don't have a clue that bag contained what made us the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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