Why is chop-spike-bleaching so popular?

Why don't guys want to have long hair any more? These days,
guys are glad to have one of the "classic" military or 50's
style cuts done on them: Caesars, crew cuts, buzzcuts, you
name it. If it's shorn, it's stylish. If you ask me, this is
boring. So how do guys alleviate "boredom?" by gelling scary
spikes into their caesars or what-which, especially on the front. What's so glamorous about looking so retro? It's
real un-natural, and can't be even called non-conformity-
it seems to be accepted today as a "clean-cut" look. Ditto
for bleaching "antique-gold" streaks into hair or just
bleaching it all a phoney-looking orangy-omlete color. Why
do guys like doing this to themselves. The guys who once
wore mohawks were at least (some of them I guess,) trying
to do thier own thing. Now there seems to be a lot of
conformity around. If you really like this kind of hairstyle, but why are they so popular?