[trentmb]

The novelty of novelty wears off.

[JoshTriplett]

It's not that novelty wears off, it's that your library of patterns has expanded to the point that fewer things manage to reach the same threshold of novelty.

To continue to experience novelty, you have to find new patterns, not just new things that fit patterns you know.

[yen223]

The more I travel, the more I realize people and cities everywhere are more alike than different.

[anexprogrammer]

That may in part be the net and globalisation. I saw more differences travelling in the 90s than I do today.

[mrspeaker]

Or you were 20 years younger in the 90s and things seemed more different because you'd experienced less? I have a really hard time getting into new music these days for that reason.

[hilop]

Literally there were fewer cities with McDonald's 20 years ago. Globalization is real.