Organization of physical items has its conveniences, but it has also been falsely treated as a beacon of a person's intelligence or moral sincerity by some who perhaps want to feel superior to others based on what is left to itself a superficial irelevence to things of substance. I want to acknowledge that of course no one is stupid or shallow for liking organization in rooms or layouts or for preferring that others be organized. Moreover, convenience can be a significant part of someone's life that by making them feel more at peace even helps them focus on more explicitly philosophical truths and ideas, and in light of these logical facts, I am not condemning organization or a desire for it as irrational or evil. It is just that organization is not the laws of logic and is not necessary for everything from philosophical depth to moral sincerity to even personal happiness for some people despite it sometimes being thought of as inseparable from these things.
Organizing your room or preferring an organized room to a less clean or structured one is far from the same as being a rational person. Someone could even have organized thoughts in addition to an organized living or work area and still not understand or look to reason itself and still believe in assumptions, contradictions, and impossibilities. Then there is the total irrelevance of this kind of organization to whether a person cares about or understands justice, and yet something as petty as keeping a room organized is actually thought of as some sign of moral superiority by some. Only a sheer fool would think that there is any kind of inherent significance to keeping a spot organized to some arbitrary extent, much less more significance than logic, morality, epistemology, and the core nature of reality (yes, I have personally met at least one person who truly acts as if they believe this).
At best, as long as a bedroom, to give one example, is livable in terms of being able to find or use things needed for survival or similar functions, there is no need to even care more about its presentation for any reason other than subjective preference. Organization of physical belongings is irrelevant to a person's grasp of reason, their introspective status, or, in all likelihood, their moral character (unless not cleaning ones room or setting it up in a precise way is evil, there is nothing to object to here in itself), but this not what a certain kind of person acts like. Subjective preference, though, is what drives most people, and if someone is stupid enough to assume that organization is part of rationality or moral character because it makes them undeservedly feel superior as a person, they are the true idiot and unjust person in this case.
They might also like organization simply because it is personally convenient for them in some way and then, since they subjectively appreciate organization to a great extent, actually think that convenience and deep truths are one and the same, when the core, abstract, foundational, or genuinely deep truths about reality all pertain to necessary logical truths about logic itself, broader metaphysics, epistemology, and how one should or should not live (if there are any obligations that exist), not at all to to what is most convenient for a given person in a particular circumstance. Practicality is like subjective preferences in that it has nothing to do with proving core or crucial truths and with why or whether these concepts are true in the first place.
Of course, the desire to know and live for truth is not at all why most people who crave organization truly desire it so much since it is a matter of personal convenience and preference, and if they were deeply rational, they would neither mistake rationality for anything other than a direct grasp of the laws of logic (they would understand and focus on self-evident axioms, what follows from them, and what follows from other ideas) nor confuse a desire for organization with anything other than a subjective longing for things to be sorted in potentially convenient or careful ways. Of course, anyone who intentionally distinguishes them without assumptions and still thinks that physical organization is deeper or more vital than reason and rationality is an incredible fool anyway. Nevertheless, this would just be another expression of the tendency of non-rationalists to prize things that are objectively trivial on their own over things of true centrality and depth.
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