A review by celina_r
Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif

3.0

I liked the essays "The Concept of Experience" and "Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution", from the series labeled "The Meaning of Life". The first discusses the limitations of the thirst to collect experiences and explores two alternatives, aestheticism and perfectionism. The second is a short, strong argument on the morality of redistributive taxation. "Thoreau Trailer Park", which finds Thoreau's legacy not so much at Walden Pond as in occupied Zuccotti Park, isn't bad. The rest, on current-ish topics from gym-going to reality TV to military heroism, meander dryly and fail to connect.