The More is Better Mentality

#26B THE MORE IS BETTER MENTALITY

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I often prefer things or experiences that are bigger, louder, longer, stronger, faster, with more power or more features. (Note: Often such a “more is better” mentality is part of a “knows no limits” mindset. Sometimes "macho" arrogance, excess, and waste are part of this, typically humble pleas for restraint are not!)

Alternate Concise Characterization with Wikipedia Entries:

defends and/or engages in Conspicuous Consumption

defends right to and/or lives in large house (McMansion)

drives SUV or large truck, defends right to do so vs. critics

not concerned about Obesity

summary Wikipedia article: none

Numerical Characterization with TFJD code: 1213

Numerical Characterization with Emotional Volatility VI index: 108

Related Words, Beliefs, Background -- 33 entries Songs! Discussion from The Worldview Literacy Book

playing card related: these are spade diamond worldview themes: individual <---> nature card #26 concise description

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #26B: The More Is Better Mentality

Super Size Me (from online encyclopedia about the documentary film and related cultural trend)

Spoiled Child (from online encyclopedia)

Worldview Watch issue #48, posted 3/04/2016 How what Trump is saying resonates with the worldview of those who vote for him

Worldview Watch issue #52:The Circle: Perfectibility Through Participatory Social Interaction

Living Ever Larger--How Wretched Excess Became a Way of Life in Southern California, by Patrick Kiger

Too Much (website providing "commentary on excess and inequality")

Interplanetary Settlement—The World is Not Enough --Human Colony on Mars (report from The Economist October 1 2016)

"I despise lotteries, but I bought four Powerball tickets anyway. I’m weak." by P. Dvorak (Jan 2016 commentary on $1.3 billion lottery from The Washington Post)

"The Neiman Marcus Catalogue: Hold the Myrrh" (article about Xmas shopping excesses from The Economist Oct 18 2014)

"How Mega Millions Became a $586 Million Phenomenon" (Dec 16 2013 USA Today story on a lottery with super jackpot payoff)

"Supercharged 2015 Chevy Corvette..." (Jan 15 2014 article/video about the 625 Hp sports car)

"Land of the Corporate Giants" (article from The Economist Nov 3 2012)

"Technology Advances, Humans Supersize" by P. Cohen (health & human evolution, 2011 NY Times article)

"Tiger Woods Ex-Wife Bulldozes $12 million Home" by Shane Bacon (Jan 5 2011 Yahoo Sports article)

"Forget Frugality, Focus on Earning More" by Ramit Sethi (Apr 28 2011 NY Times article)

"Our Super-Sized Kids--How America's Children Packed on the Pounds, by Jeffrey Kluger (article in Time June 23 2008)

Book Review of Better Not Bigger, book by Eben Fodor

I Love My SUV, by Ray Keating

I Love My SUV Despite Its MPG, by Colin Hurlock, editor at MSNBC

Chasing the SUV Vote

"The Politics of Very Big Trucks" (October 6 2012 article in The Economist)

The Big Screen (a Stanford student's prank / commentary)

People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character, by David M. Potter (read at Google Books)

A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe (American consumer excess is major theme in this 1998 novel; from online encyclopedia)

American Mania -- When More is Not Enough (book by director of UCLA Neuropsychiatric Inst.)

Feature Fatigue -- When Product Capabilities Become Too Much of a Good Thing (J. of Marketing Research article)

Quirky Foes and Owners of Invading Monster Mansions (NY Times book review of Rattled and Lapham Rising)

quotes about excess and related topics

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"As you shop in "The Reality Marketplace" avoid spending your "reality cash" too early, before you have seen everything. "
from Coming of Age in the Global Village, by Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.

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