One more idea for the Pinnacle Future that occurred to me while I was in the shower:
I remember someone asking a few pages back about how the 70's obsession with truckers would pan out since they often had confrontations with lawmen, etc. In my personal opinion, no one, not even Oswald, would allow the media to lampoon law enforcement. It's just too damaging to the superstructure of the state. Instead, I recommend that the iconic figure of the Pinnacle Future be the biker. However, the lens through which they're viewed is very, very different. After all, IOTL the image of the biker is a rebel, an outlaw, a troublemaker. They clash with the police, and flip the bird to the establishment. Again, that will not be tolerated by a totalitarian state, regardless of how sequined or sexy its surface image is.
Rather than a rebel, I think that the biker in the Pinnacle Future can be viewed as a Pinnacle Pilgrim. He is traveling, maybe alone, maybe with a couple friends, to feel the freedom which Jehovah gave them, to serve the Lord, to see the Holy Sites of America, and to connect to his Pinnacle Fluids. To truly know and learn what it is to be an American Pinnacle Man (or Woman). The stereotypical biker activities can fit into this lens given the direction of the Union. Biker gangs?
Social Darwinism on the Destiny Road! Drug and alcohol use?
Use the freedom which the Lord gave you, and taste the Fruits of The Spirit! Sex with hot biker babes (or if female, attractive male bikers)?
Spread those Pinnacle Fluids! And at the end of your quest, you've become closer to your God-created True Pinnacle Self.
If this becomes a thing, bikers could actually be one of the predominant subcultures of the RU, if not the dominant one. Thousands upon thousands of young guys and gals might spend their summer tearing up the blacktop, traveling somewhere significant, and discovering themselves on the way. Some of these pilgrims may never end their journey, just riding from town to town as Pinnacle Men and Women of the road (although this might be frowned upon by the time one reaches a certain age). By the time we get to the modern era, Yankee kids around my age will have to endure endless tales of "
That epic trip from from New Canaan to Valley Forge back in '73" instead of the Flower Child stories of OTL.
Still from Easy Riders: Pinnacle Pilgrims for Jehovah (1970).