One moment...

...can change the course of human history. One person, one thought, one culmination of millions of coincidences can alter the afters unrecognizable from the befores. We just watched this very disturbing movie, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, which captures this truth. The film (mockumentary, I guess is more appropro) explores an alternate history of the US if the Dixies had won... it does so through a (fake) British documentary shown on Confederate network television... including commercials selling slave-based American products. Yes, it was funny...but, it was the sort of funny that is borne of uncomfortable, embarrassing realities. Like laughing at a funeral. It was not a Christopher Guest-type mockumentary. It was both a picture of how close we were to having a very different (inhuman, disgusting, abhorrent) future and how close we still are to a past that hasn't disappeared... it just goes unnoticed by most. Scary.