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# Nostalgia
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/nostalgia/
- Published: 2025-09-25T05:34:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-18T20:57:48.000Z
- Description: Remember when bumper stickers read Free Tibet or End Apartheid, and we agreed? Remember when there was just one war on TV, like a movie whose plot you knew by heart?
- Author: Andy
- Tags: America on the Brink, Be The Change, poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

Remember when bumper stickers read  
*Free Tibet* or *End Apartheid*, and we agreed?

Remember when there was just one war on TV,  
like a movie whose plot you knew by heart?

Remember when the president was a crook we  
all poked fun at, and we mouthed the right words  
when tragedy struck, and nothing changed?

Remember when smog was the price of freedom?  
Remember 9/11, freedom fries, War for Oil?  
Remember paperboys, and newspapers wrapped

in wet plastic, and turning off the evening news?  
Remember when planes had a smoking  
section? When erudition was good, and debates

mattered, and a gaffe could decide an election?  
Remember when we were the good guys?

Remember love letters, and losing touch with  
old friends? Remember pay phones, and cell phones  
with pull-out antennae, green-screened computers,

the Mine Ban Treaty, Minesweeper, dial-up modems—  
when social media toppled dictators? Do you remember  
a post-racial America clapping itself on the back?

Those too were terrible times.