Me talking to myself from 20 years ago:
Current me: "Okay, so the US government is in a spat with the Catholic church"
Younger me: "Obviously, the church is overstepping and we're on the secular side of things."
Current me: "Well..."
Younger me: "Oh my non-existent god! We're not religious in the future, are we?"
Current me: "It depends on if you count Firefly. Okay, so the Iranian government put their support behind the Pope..."
Younger me: "?!"
Current me: "because he condemned the militarism of the villain from Home Alone 2."
Younger me: "You mean the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv?"
Current me: "Nope, not them."
Younger me: "The business guy? He seems harmless."
Current me: "Oh, my sweet summer child, you have no idea. Please let me stay here for a while. It's bad out there. Like Days of Future Past bad. President Clark bad.
Younger me: "Okay, but only if you give me some tips."
Current me: "Fine, I'll probably get in trouble, but screw it. Invest in Google. And I don't mean just twenty bucks, dump everything in there. Find a way to get dual citizenship like your life depends on it. Stay away from eastern Europe and the Middle East. Never trust a businessman or tech guy."
Younger me: "How about science? There must be some pretty amazing scientific breakthroughs in the future, right?"
Current me: "Yeah, there's a little of that. Mapped the human genome, gene editing, brand new space telescope, and manned mission to the moon. But even science news can be pretty awful, too. We have killer drones and fake news indistinguishable from real news. And Cyberdyne Systems. Not quite Skynet, but not not Skynet."
Younger me: "Okay, here's a futon. Tell you what, I'll take you out to the mall tomorrow. And then we can rent a movie from Blockbuster."
Current me: *crying happy tears*
Younger me: "There's one with Rob Schneider and another one with Kevin Spacey. I'll let you pick"
Current me:
Younger me: "SIKE! Keanu Reeves or Ian McKellen."
Current me:
