BOOK ABOOUT TIDINESS SERIES
The series was cannily timed for release in January 2019, when the guilt at December’s excesses crept in and we resolved to impose more discipline on our lives. Ultimately, these reformed heretics became evangelists for a new ideology of domestic austerity. These intemperate hoarders assimilated Kondo’s creed: chuck away your stuff and become a better, happier person.
Like the other self-professed ‘experts’, ‘consultants’ and ‘gurus’ dominating our screens and bookshelves, Kondo was a charismatic cult leader, a priest for a new religion.Īccordingly, she worked by converting untidy people-their messy houses symptoms of an excessive, sinful, and immoral character-into born-again minimalists. ‘Tidying is not just about cleaning’, she opined. Kondo was on a crusade, waging a bitter war with her sworn enemy: clutter. ‘My mission is to spark joy in the world through tidying’, she beamed. Kondo’s hugely popular Netflix series, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, based on her bestselling 2014 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, proselytised an extreme form of household puritanism.
The urge to purge isn’t new – remember Kim and Aggie’s How Clean is Your House? The most recent bout of mania for decluttering was triggered in 2019, when self-styled ‘tidying expert’ Marie Kondo told us to get rid of everything and keep only what ‘sparks joy’. Peterson maps the difference between mess and tidiness not just onto the political spectrum (conservative discipline versus liberal disarray) but onto a cosmic battle between order and chaos, fundamental expressions of the eternal Manichean struggle of good against evil. But he equates beauty strictly with tidiness, arguing that ‘proper order’, at home or in the office, not only helps you ‘take care of yourself more effectively’ but is ‘an invitation to the divine’. With the end of lockdown in sight, UK charity shops are expecting a huge boom in donations as Britons rush to declutter.įor Peterson, ‘mak one room in your home as beautiful as possible’ is the first step to taking control of your life.
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Princess Anne was recently criticised and urged to declutter after viewers glimpsed her living room at Gatcombe Park, whilst Channel 5 is planning a new TV show in which Nick Knowles helps messy homeowners tidy up. In his new book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson tells readers that cleaning up their homes and offices is nothing less than a ‘moral obligation’.īrits seem to agree. Today, untidiness is seen as a moral failure and messy people are cast as incontinent reprobates lacking in all self-discipline.
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