For how long is it new? Can anything be truly exotic?
ex·ot·ic adj
1. strikingly unusual and often very colorful and exciting or suggesting distant countries and unfamiliar cultures
2. introduced from another place or region
n
somebody who or something that is exotic, especially a plant or animal
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Is a Lamborghini Murcielago exotic? Could it remain so if you saw one every day?
What happens after you become accustomed to the exotic? Is it still exotic once it becomes familiar? Familiar is an antonym of exotic… So, is it possible to be familiar with the exotic, or is everything doomed to become the familiar?
If you purchase something because it’s exotic, but it’s doomed to become the familiar, then what is the purpose of purchasing something that cannot retain the reason why you bought it?
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Words like this are all about perspective. They are relative terms.
I had an exotic flower that bloomed every spring till summer. It was beautiful to look at and the scent was just as exotic. Never got tired of it and was sad when a late winter frost killed it.
sure they can. the definition is subjectively based.
Yes, of course realeyes, there is such a thing as the exotic., you’re just not likely to find it in your own back yard or in your own mind. However, there may very well be a number of things “in your own back yard” that someone, from somewhere might find quite exotic. Exotic is in the eye of the beholder. But if you are desparate, and wanting for things exotic and don’t have either the time or the money, or both, in order to find it, perhaps you might consider reevaluating things near you, things overlooked or ignored, things passed over and taken for granted and try to imagine them as thought they were something exotic. Why not? What else have you got to do?
I think everything loses some of it’s luster with familiarity. You might still retain an appriciation but the experience of ‘exotic’ would ultimately dilute.
The brain has an area that detects the newness and exotic-ness of an object or situation relative to what has already been experienced. When there’s an exotic object or event, such as a glass shattering, or a beautiful car riding by, this area fires off rapidly. Things are new when this area is excited, and they become furniture when it becomes desensitised to it.
There’s always exotic particles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_particle
It really doesn’t take long for something to lose the luster. The Lamborghini used to be my dream car. The 99 Diablo is still exotic. However I work in Beverly Hills, so all the new Lambos don’t even get a second look b/c too many people have them. Aston Martin DB9’s used to be cool too. . . again, too many people have them.
Even the Tesla Sportster. I thought that ish was incredible, well I see at least two parked next to me every day.
So now, it doesn’t really matter what the car is, it’s pretty much like “who cares,” when in the past, if I saw a Lambo or Ferrari I would turn my head completely backward to get a second glance.
These words: New, Exotic, Improved are lies that advertisers tell us so that we purchase their product, even though It may have been out for decades, the box, the logo, the dispenser may be new, but the product rarely is.
When I hear these words, red flags pop up, sirens go off in my mind, and I hide my wallet…lol.
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