No longer was excess something to aspire to.
According to Adorno, works of art, like natural things, always involve an "excess", something more than their mere materiality and exchange value (see Vogel 1996, ch. 4.4 for a detailed discussion of Adorno's views on art, labour and domination).
With GOP in control of all the branches, this authority is likely to be used in excess something which literally all political analysts are justifiably worried about.
Fascism isn't something buried in time, existing only in a bout of European madness in the early-to-mid 20th century; as recent years have shown, it's a constant possibility, repressive politics pushed to excess, something that's always lying in wait just beneath the surface of class society.
It is a shame, then, that conservatives and libertarians have any made any government involvement in healthcare a kind of proxy for Progressivism's worst excesses -- and something to be fought against without giving any quarter.
Excess is something of a speciality for Takashi Miike.
This kind of excess is something consumers, at any age, are increasingly disinterested in.
Evidence, for instance, that an excess of something like sugar may well be bad for your health does not mean that the substance itself is "bad".
"If someone is very evidently a dedicated Nazi that's one thing, but the odd silly remark or youthful excess is something else.
