[quchen]

Have you been to a really long opera? It’s quite impressive. After hours of pretty intense performance and singing, can you not appreciate the street musician the day after? Do you have a strong desire to go to the opera again the following days?

[Unearned5161]

I get the direction you're trying to go in, but I think this metaphor is flawed. If all I've seen in life are mediocre street musicians, and then one day I go to some concert and it's the best thing ever, sure that's going to change how I see the street musicians from before.

Replace with food and its even clearer. Going to some top of the line Micheline star restaurant _will_ alter how you look at food for the rest of your life.

Watching a movie in blue-ray full quality no compression _will_ alter how you appreciate streamed movies for the rest of your life.

You can still appreciate it for what it is, but it will forever have that relative smallness.

[pjerem]

> Going to some top of the line Micheline star restaurant _will_ alter how you look at food for the rest of your life.

Interestingly I don’t agree with you and that’s what I would call elitism.

Food is a great example as I know I’m personally able to appreciate a great and complex meal at a high end restaurant and still enjoy some fast food.

It’s the same for art : does having a favorite book/movie/music/videogame/… makes you unable to enjoy other books/movies/music/videogames ?

[Unearned5161]

I mentioned Micheline just as a commonly recognized ranking for restaurant quality, but its irrelevant to the point. Based on whatever internal ranking of food that you have, if you suddenly experience something that goes off your internal chart, you will have to re-scale your ranking to make it fit. I.e your previously ranked experiences will be affected.

Maybe as a whole its a poor example though because enjoyment of food is a multi-dimensional problem. Whereas obliterating a dopamine receptor is one dimensional.

[flkenosad]

Honestly, kind of.