Ryan Reynolds says 80s nostalgia is just "paving over trauma with puppy dogs and ice cream." He’s right that the ’80s were brutal in many ways: Drunk driving, crack, the Cold War hanging over our heads. But he’s missing why we actually miss it. We don’t miss the ’80s because it was safe or easy. We want the UNITY back. 106 million people watched the season finale of M*A*S*H at the same time. That doesn't happen anymore. We all argued over the exact same set of facts, not someone’s “personal truth.” And we remained friends at the end of the day. We had the humility to check our own biases instead of 30% of the country pretending to be "influencers" in an ego-driven feedback loop where every disagreement turns into total war. That’s what we miss about the 80s.