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.
I think boils down to the limits of the term “destruction.”
If I “destroy” a sandwich, I’m saying something positive.
If I “destroy” someone’s country, I’m saying something negative.
This may seem somewhat trite but really and truly: it’s about how you define “destruction.”
Well, I did think of it more in an idea space rather than a physical space so there’s certainly a big difference in the application of destruction.
If we go with a more idea-based concept of destruction, destroying your own country is not necessarily a negative. Our countries and institutions are rarely perfect (and sometimes not good at all) so destroying them to create them anew or simply leaving their place empty can be good.
See, when I hear “destroy the country,” a part of me is all about burn to renew. But a part of me also knows that tens of millions of people could go homeless or even die in the interlude. The systems we have have a lot of dependent people. It’s easy to say “break a few eggs for an omelette” and all that but reality is far darker.