"A Many Went Looking For America and Couldn't Find it Anywhere"
"In the Reagan-Bush era, reference to Easy Rider instantly conjured up demonic images of the hippie counter-culture with its long hair, experimentation with drugs and sex, and violent social protests." (Klinger) In this movie Wyatt, aka Captain America, and Billy set out from Los Angeles in search of the American Ideal. They are looking for the ideal that we as Americans always picture our culture and society to be, but it rarely actually is. When they are sitting around the campfire with their new friend George, discussing UFO's and aliens, interbreeding with the human race they are discussing the inhabitility of the human race to met their expectations. The ideal of the American life, or the American society is something that is always trying to be found, not just by Wyatt and Billy, but by many others from many walks of life . This ideal is something that we can not seem to reach on our own, we need to breed with aliens in order to reach this ideal. One of the reasons that this ideal is so difficult to reach is that is different for each person. For the rednecks that see Wyatt and Billy traveling together, they are not part of the American ideal for them. Whereas Wyatt and Billy's American ideal involves merily being tolerated, or meeting a group of people that do not judge them for their outward apperience, or way of life.