In his book Unapologetic, Francis Spufford simply calls it HPtFtU—The Human Propensity to Fuck Things Up: What we’re talking about here is not just our tendency to lurch and stumble and screw up by accident, our passive role as agents of entropy. It’s our active inclination to break stuff, “stuff” here including moods, promises, relationships we care about, and our own well-being and other people’s, as well as material objects whose high gloss positivity seems to invite a big fat scratch.17
