Neat and Tidy: The New Magic

Should we try tidying out? Certainly, if you want. But it seems somehow unlikely that many of us will proclaim on our respective deathbeds, ‘I saw my children enough, but I regret that I didn’t set aside enough time for tidying’. The perfection intrinsic to some conceptions of success merely serve to increase both the chance and magnitude of our failure. In any case, we should be encouraged by the fact that Marinetti himself couldn’t follow the radical Futurist program of I Quit Pasta. He was later caught, photographed, and then publicly shamed for forking huge strings of cacio e pepe into his mouth.