Is there spiritual/karmic significance behind historical re-enactments?

[Mister Obvious]

Is it as simple as deciding that the world today just kinda sucks, and they'd rather re-live a period of history that just feels better to them??

I know there have to be other topics about this around the net, so I'll look for them. But I am gonna need to think it through and express my own thoughts about it because I think it's a very fascinating and significant (psychologically, spiritually, and otherwise) tendency that some humans display.