02179cam a2200313 i 4500 1144825151 TxAuBib 20240408120000.0 240327s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024006782 9781250849915 HRD 27.99 1250849918 HRD 27.99 TxAuBib rda Rothfeld, Becca. All things are too small [BOOK] : essays in praise of excess / Becca Rothfeld. First edition. New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Hold and Company, 2024. 285 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In her debut essay collection, Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flattened and sanitized, purged of ugliness, excess, and provocation. Our embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished. We see it in our homes, where we bring in Marie Kondo to rid them of their idiosyncrasies and darknesses. We take up mindfulness to do the same thing to our heads, emptying them of the musings, thoughts, and obsessions that make us who we are. In the bedroom, a new wave of puritanism has drained sex of its unpredictability and therefore true eroticism. In our fictions, the quest for balance has given us protagonists who aspire only to excise their appetites. We have flipped our values, Rothfeld argues: while the gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, we strive to compensate with egalitarianism in art, erotics, and taste, where it does not belong and where it quashes wild experiments and exuberance. All Things Are Too Small is a soul cry to restore imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment to all domains of our lives.". 20240408. Excess (Philosophy.) Orderliness. Income distribution. Equality. Essays.