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Passion and destruction - a collective exploration (self.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by Lionir to c/chat

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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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[–] Lionir 2 points 1 year ago

The idea being that originally, things were created out of raw chaos; after that, you need to deconstruct something to create something new. Either way, it’s violence: the imposition of one’s will onto something else.

I think this matches really well with what I'm getting at. I should read Nietzsche someday.

How do we balance our very human urge to create with an ethical imperative against violence?

Is violence necessarily evil? I understand aversion to it but there are plenty of improvements to society which people unfortunately had to use violence for and many of which I'd continue advocating for.