On Repeating The Past

I've been thinking for a few years about trends and such. An easy one to identify and discuss is fashion, so I'll use that. Please note that I am uninterested in fashion history discussion and am only using this as an example from surface level observations.

I was born in 1990. I don't remember much of the fashion of the 90s, but I can look back with movies and Tv shows and get the idea. Somewhat reminiscent of the 40s/50s (hello, plaid and blue jeans and floral dresses), but modern. I remember the 2000s. The weird mix of 90s and 60s/70s style but modern. The 20teens, a weird mix of 80s/90s (bright colors, spandex, corporate casual), but modern. And here we are in 2020s, a weird mix of 20teens and early 2000s, but modern.

In the early 2000s I can only assume that a lot of people coming into the fashion design industry had grown up/been born in the 60s/70s. Those coming into the fashion industry in the past few years are likely millennials with memories of the early 2000s. On and on...

I read somewhere years ago that the reason we feel so strongly about our early years is because we literally could feel more. Emotionally, physically. Our senses dull as we age and our mind settles into bias and such, we lose our curiosity. School teaches us to shut up, listen, stay in line. We get a job that tells us to shut up, listen, stay in line. We pass the few minutes of spare time we have between obligations by watching TV, movies, news, etc that tells us shut up, listen, repeat what I said/did. Buy this thing. Be that thing. Consume.

We chase a time where we felt genuinely, but look to the past to reminisce, instead of looking inward and onward.

Thoughts?