I’ve recently been thinking a lot about self-destruction.

I’ve been thinking about how passion and destruction are interlinked. I’ve also thought that for creation to exist, destruction must proceed it.

I’ve had quite the difficulty to try and make sense of these feelings. I thought I’d try to explain and explore this idea with other people.

So here I am - Let’s start from the premise above.

  • That’s certainly an interesting perspective but I feel that it leans too much into quantifying destruction and creation based on the moral merit of these actions. It feels kinda like trying to justify rather than explain the relationship, I might be completely off base. What do you think?

    •  FZDC   ( @FZDC@beehaw.org ) 
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      11 year ago

      I guess it’s a two-part observation. The first part does include a qualitative assessment of whether the destruction was “worth it.” The second part, though, I don’t think includes any moral assessment, just an observation that destruction is happening with or without us, so there’s plenty of creation that is possible from merely saving something from destruction, or leveraging an already-gonna-happen destruction to extract some creation out of it.