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Passion and destruction - a collective exploration (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Lionir@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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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.

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[–] luciole@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Creation and destruction is all just transformation though I guess. It takes some stuff and makes it into other stuff. Understanding a specific transformation as creation or destruction depends on your point of view. If the input that is lost is noteworthy then we’ll see the destruction. If the newly produced output is noteworthy then we’ll see the creation. It’s two sides of the same coin.

I don’t catch how you correlate destruction and passion though. Would you like to elaborate?

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t catch how you correlate destruction and passion though. Would you like to elaborate?

Passion often leads to creation (which I interlink to destruction). The way destruction can be seen can vary a lot. It can be self-destruction when passion carries people too far; it can be destruction because we need to destroy the old to create the new; it can be destruction and creation because we are misguided about the current state of existence (I think the NieR games can be a really interesting exploration of that).

[–] liv@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Let's follow that thought further. Why does passion lead to creation?

What is it about passion that demands an act?