Well, I will agree with some of those benchmarks ... but, for me, it's just that having newness in the same old area can itself smack of oldness. I did get less enthusiastic about new music at some point (it was more like 40) ... but I want more new visual arts now.
I have always liked both new and tried & true. But with so much life under my belt at this point, new doesn't even seem all that new unless it's also in a realm that's new.
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