Ogdred Weary
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Pop culture / music culture / architecture etc has long included nods of respect to or influence from the past.
An example is Tarantino, his films crammed full of both obvious and subtle references to previous films.
Many Reggae songs are updated reworks of 1970's songs, themselves reworks of 1960s; songs.
Hip Hop is full of MCs rapping a couple of bars' worth of lyrics from a song that influenced them, then adding their own lyrics.
A large chunk of central London is built with ancient Greece and Rome in mind!
There are many hundreds of youth sub cultures with their own fashion, slang, danced and music.
There are hundreds of people who define themselves by the football team they support.
Lots of people long to belong to a group - it's hardwired in many people, my guess from thousands of year ago when we lived in small groups of 30 or for defence and sharing resources.
The exploitation of the past has reached some kind of zenith/nadir.
There certainly were a proliferation of youth subcultures: punk, goth, metal, mods, etc these ones seem to have lessened and perhaps been replaced by others.
If you are an adult, especially a middle aged and are defined by tribally identifying with commercial crap for children, then you should take a long hard look at yourself.