Soylent Green - Police Badge

 

Soylent Green was movie from 1973 that predicted the state of the world in 2022.  It got a few things right, like people wearing masks.  But in this movie the environmental disaster was resulted in the 2022, which makes food very scarce.  Consequently a quirky twist has resulted.  

The police in Soylent Green wear silver colored helmets and the special star badge on the center of the helmet.  The back triangle is black and pointing upwards, while the front triangle is yellow and is pointing downwards. 

 

 

 

 Upon the yellow badge it is written CITY of NEW YORK POLICE DEPT.

 

Soylent Green People Mass Recycling Truck

 

A unique vexillological item in Soylent Green, set in a dystopian year of 2022, appears on the waste management vehicle.  As it was a rather low budget sci-fi movie, they just printed a design a slapped over the would have been official logo of the trash truck.  

One flag appears in the opening montage.  It looks like a pennant, that is impossible to discern.  It is jack of some sort; a jack is special type of flag flown at the front or bow of a ship.

The movies predicted the band Green Day would still be popular in the year 2022.  Just Amazing! Green Day needs to make a song called "Soylent Tuesday!"

It is so trippy look at a book from 1973 that shows the past from 2015 to 2019.  Back in 1973, 2022 seemed light years away.  From now, of the year 2022, that is like the year 2071!  Believe it or not much will have changed.  As Louis Zorich said in his seminal role of Chef Pete in Pete's Diner from The Muppets Take Manhattan, "Peoples are Peoples."

Somebody in 1973 must have been tripping on future somethings, because they hit the target that in 2022, people would wear masks.  But we don't all wear the same kind of drab clothes.  

 

The cool retro games of 1973! Apparently the rich man who had this in his apartment was video game collector, who could afford such a retro game in perfect condition. 

Gary Larson Cat and Dog Battle Flags

 

Gary Larson had a short-lived animated show.  Larson is famous for the juxtaposition of ideas to make people laugh at the way things are.  In this case the army of cats and dogs fought each other.  Note that the cats have a flag somewhat similar to the Union, while the dogs have Confederate kind of flag, but instead of stars on bars, it is crossed bones. 

The finial of the cat flag is paw with nails extended, while the finial of the dog flag is tail.  

Califa Republic: California Flag with Queen Califa

 

Queen Califa was the first legendary namesake who gave California its name, according to Spanish storytellers. 

Flag of Pottstown, Pennsylvania in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

 

Pottstown, Pennsylvania has flag that looks just a little bit like the flag of Cuba.  The colors are the same but the divide is not a triangle.  The red canton hoist area is red.  the fly striped half has six colors, alternating of blue and white. 

Pottstown is a borough i Montgomery County, Pennsylvania that was founded in 1752, and incorporated on February 6, 1815.

Insulin Flag from Extra History, the educational Youtube comic series, par excellence

 

Flag of Insulin was shown on the "The Discovery of Insulin - The Miracle - Extra History. It looks like a peanut butter jar, on yellow-reen framed in sky blue.

This is an excellent use of Youtube for fun educational materials.

Silesian Flag & Ukranian Flag - Fraternal Flag Partners

 

Europe is divided and united, depending on who you ask.  The flag for the Silesian Autonomy movement is balanced with the flag of Ukraine.  They are inverts of each other.  Right now, there is small yet very vocal minority of Selesians in Poland who want more autonomy, and a few who want to break away to become their own nation.  Selesians speak a dialect that is different for mainstream Polish.  Who knows?  Maybe in 50 years, as old nations of Europe devolve, perhaps Silesia will one day separate from Poland? 

Right now, in Ukraine it is undergoing a violent spasm of separation as induced by more powerful forces from within and across the world.  No doubt in 2072, fifty years from now, the Ukraine of today will look nothing like the Ukraine of 2072 and neither will Poland.