stop making sense

There's no such thing as a 'new' experience, by definition. One can't have one. It's a contradiction in terms. Therefore the whole discourse, the whole premium put on "experiencing new things", etc., etc., is flawed and as consumable as the culture that creates it. To have an experience, any experience, it must be iterable. One must be able to 'have' it before it can be had. Otherwise it wouldn't be such. And actually, we have a term for such strange cases: trauma. This was one of Freud's great insights. For Freud, trauma is, by definition, the experience you can't have. Hence, one rejects it altogether. It is not a recognizable experience, and as such, is no an experience at all. This is why trauma always involves a blocking out on the part of the subject: a repression, a mental absence, in which cognition literally fails to account for the information brought to it.