remembering golden age state is a state of knowing
it prompts processes that buddha tried to make sense of
it is not a fixation
it is a natural process that is irresistible as all natural process are because we ourselves are part of the natural process
and
we have entered the location (time) where the natural process is visible to our senses and becoming more so
this is as much prompted by our environment as it is ourselves
thus
it is unlike our past
because in our recorded and becoming understood past
environmental alteration is present when we alter
in buddha era
there was no accompanying environment alteration in process thus it never crossed his mind to link the 2 in a practical fashion
like he never noticed the link to lead either
and a million other things he could have noticed
but did not