Nation swept by a "Plague of Atavism"

Atavism, taken from the word atavus, which means "great-grandfather" in latin, refers to the regression into a more primitive state of conciousness, and that's been happening left and right in this good ol' nation of ours. It can range from relatively minor things, such as liking a style of music that was popular 23 years ago, to "wiggers" who have already shaved their heads putting on powdered wigs and acting like Victorians, all the way to the whole system of sports teams and their mascots degrading into the totemic system that Freud wrote so much about in his book, Totem and Taboo. You'll see Seahawks fans claiming to be a part of the Seahawk clan, and refusing to marry any other former Seahawks fans, but only Bears fans, or some other team. (Note that in such cases, the game that the team they were a fan of played becomes completely irrelevant.) In the case of heterosexual sports fans, this often leads to a wave of wife swapping, since wives are usually considered the fans of the same team as their husbands by default. It is feared by many that if left unadressed, the situation may come to resemble that of the distopian society in Michal Moorcock's novel, Son of the White Wolf, where the world is opressed by cruel warriors in iron beast masks who never show their true faces. Even more extreme cases, where people have regressed to a sub-human state and now roam the hills with their dogs, have also been noted. Doctor Michal Greenspan has stated that "The best thing you can do is change your name to that of some sort of plant, such as Alder or Yarrow, and move to somewhere cold, like Olympia Washington. That way, when the atavism gets you, you will most likely turn into a plant, and since plants move much more slowly when it's cold, that should be enough to keep you out of trouble." When asked why the plague of Atavism is sweeping this country and not some other, Doctor Greenspan replied that the nation was "ripe for it."