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Challenge of the Week XXXIX
You took your smartphone and moved back to 1984. For the sake of the plot, your phone works perfectly, but a condition of your year-long relocation in time is no one can see it, or know about it. You are to report back to 2023 the contrasts: With people, music, overall humanity, anything. Send texts, pics, videos, undetected. The elite group with whom you work has cracked the code of time travel and intervention, and while the race to colonize Mars rages on, your group has decided to instead go back to 1984 to reset the world, so to speak. Before that power leaves a seamless, yet indelible mark on the future, the group has to decide if it's for the better, or to go ahead and let it all run the course it's on, and start looking skyward for continuation. Make it funny, make it deep, make it dark, make it yours. Entry with the most likes takes the $25 wire. Go.

“We are gonna reset the world.”

"The world right? You wanna reset the world?"

"That's correct! Why?"

"Look at the stuff we have done and created! Phones, Computers, languages? Hell, we have literally created a way to travel across the goddamn ocean!"

"And the bad. You can't have the good without the bad. It's like Yin and Yang."

"I know that. But you can't do that! You can't just reset the world!"

"Prove it."

"Huh?"

"I took you back to 1984 in the US for pictures. So, prove I can't reset the world with those pictures"

"...Micheal Jackson. He is the King of Pop. He has influenced everyone in the entire world. He is a literal superstar. Music in the 80s was iconic. Thriller, Take on Me, Material Girl. All of these wonderful singers have literally emerged from the 80s How about fashion? I know that the 80s was a...strange time but people like fashion and the newer generation is bringing it back. The equality. We have evolved from that. We care about women's rights. We want people of color to have equal rights. Queer people don't have to hide their love anymore."

"I see your point. We have evolved but that's not enough for everyone to be happy. People are getting killed for their skin color, for what they believe."

"Humans aren't gonna see eye to eye not matter what universe. We are made with opinions that you might not like. So it's best to ignore those people and continue to make the world a better place. Let them be unhappy."

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