Francis Spufford, who is Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, calls this tendency The Human Propensity to Fuck Things Up, or HPtFTU. It is his attempt to rebrand the concept of sin, a word that has fallen far, far out of fashion. It\u2019s used now, if at all, jokingly. A slimming club\u2019s shorthand for calories, the name of a lingerie shop. It sounds like self-indulgent naughtiness, harming no one, the liberated opposite of Puritanism.