In all the sports people are doing what we as young people would have thought of as crazy. For decades running a rapid in an old canvas covered canoe was the same. And the body of knowledge about it was the same. Motorcyclists do wheelies w the rear wheel in the air .. not just the front. I've seen them do it on freeways. What for?
I'm just an old man but some of this stuff makes me feel like my generation has just been mop'in around w dull minds that could'nt even dream up such stuff. However it could be a sign of desperation like a coming doom. You know, the theory about plants, animals and humans faced w terrible threats tend to reproduce at a much faster rate like the baby boomers parents. My most profound feeling is "what's wrong w them"?
Now we have retro this and retro that. In the 50s we didn't think what people did in the teens and twenties was cool. It was old dumb stuff not to be emulated or reproduced in any way. 32 Ford roadster? Now-a-days the roadster would bug eyes and drop jaws much more than a new Corvette.
What's the doom just over the horizon? Must be a great catastrophe that will reduce our population to reasonable levels .... or much less. That said I haven't seen my doomsday friend lately.