Generally speaking based on my personal life, bigger is generally worse. For example, bigger cars are worse to drive, park, and live with. Bigger cameras are worse to carry, cause pain in your wrist or neck, and you shoot fewer photos. Bigger houses are worse, because they require more cleaning and maintenance.

But certainly there are some conditions in which bigger is better. This is something I’ll try to essay.

Bigger (more muscular) people are better.

Generally speaking, the taller and more muscular you are, the better. If tallness and muscular mass is “bigness”, this is better.

However with body fat, bigger is worse. A bigger (mostly body fat person) is seen with social scorn, and their day-to-day lives are more difficult.

So with human bodily physique and the body, perhaps we need to be more specific about “bigness”. Are we talking about “bigness” in terms of height? In muscle mass? Or fat?

Perhaps with human bodies, “grandeur” or “grandness” is a better notion. A 6 foot 2 human with 220 pounds of high muscle mass and only 10% bodyfat and strength is impressive and grand. A 6 foot 2 human at 220 pounds of mostly bodyfat (40% bodyfat) is just seen as overly fat, and not grand.

Notion 1: Bigger fat is worse.

Fatness is worse when it comes to bigness. Fat can be seen as unnecessary excess, or metabolic dysfunction.

Bigger is better when it comes to weight lifting

When it comes to weight lifting, bigger weights are better. Bigger weights for fewer reps is better than tons of reps at low weights. Powerlifting as generally more fun, interesting, and epic than “bodybuilding” styled workouts of boring reps.

Bigger file sizes are worse

Generally smaller files are superior. Less storage space, upload faster, export faster, etc. 

The notion of having a 100 megapixel camera is horrifying to me.

Even when shooting digital medium format (Pentax 645z), I’d just shoot it small JPEG. Image resolution, quality, and aesthetics are still phenomenal, but the files are just far smaller and superior.

Bigness is perfection.

Bignesss is all comparison. The Sears tower was once seen as epic, now seen as quite quaint compared to the buildings in Dubai.

So perhaps bigness isn’t the goal — it is grandeur, epicness, and power.

For example, a McLaren is far smaller than a Ford F-150, but far superior. And a smaller Mazda Miata is probably superior to a Ford Mustang on a track.