Sorry for the red, remember the commercial "I'm stuck on bandaids and bandaids stuck on me." Well ha ha I'm stuck on red and red is stuck on me.
Order and neatness are often equated with purity and righteousness. How many of us have not heard the expression cleanliness is next to Godliness the saying goes. As we all know this is particularly highlighted in WT land. But.... this appears to be a big But even apparent positive qualities taken to extreme become like a double negative having the opposite effect!
On January 9, 2007, an article appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution entitled “Chaos Rules” with a photo of Albert Einstein standing around his very cluttered desk, appearing to be looking for something, with the following quote within the photo:
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind,
of what, then, is an empty desk?”
–Albert Einstein
For this article, Jim Auchmutey of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed Eric Freedman, one of the authors of the book, A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder–How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place. Freedman states,
“…we’d all be better off worrying less about neatness and order.”
When asked about the state of Einstein’s desk, Freedman says,
“Einstein had a fantastically messy desk. I spend a lot of time walking through the halls of academia, and I can tell you there’s a strong correlation between how spectacular someone’s mess is and how successful they are as a professor.”
Finally, there is a sidebar at the end of the article (it’s difficult to determine whether Freedman or Auchmutey, the AJC writer, penned this sidebar) which reads, ”What messy can do for you” featuring four famous men. For example, with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s photo comes the caption, “The California governor hates making appointments and has pretty much winged his whole career.” But the caption of one of the other men he features (again, including photo) states:
“…if it’s neat you want…history’s ultimate neat freak: Adolf Hitler.”
...OUTLAW