When I was working on the automotive assembly line as a student, there was a saying in the plant:

“If you haven’t heard a good rumor by 10am… start one.”

Sure enough, almost every day there would be a rumor of the line shutting down early, a potential strike looming or somebody on the frame line who was about to get canned. You could depend on any one of those rumors hitting your ears by lunch.

If not, you started it and would hear it again by the end of your shift.

In education, if a teacher isn’t particularly fond of the current pedagogical push being put on them, all they have to do is wait five years and something new will come around.

Of course, this new something is actually a re-packaged version of something that was done years prior.

The pulp fiction writers of the thirties appeared to have disappeared, but a slew of pulp writers have emerged today with the advent of self-publishing and writers pounding out a novel (or more) a month.

Imperialism hasn’t gone away, we just call it different names.

Colonialism isn’t gone either, we just renamed it globalization and pretended it wasn’t just a few particular cultures who had all the influence.

There’s a resurgence of record stores, a spike of interest in board games, a boomerang of fashion trends and music artists are back to making money doing live shows.

Everything comes back around if you give it enough time.