Sunday, March 10, 2013

Destroying and creation...

are processes of the same nature. In order to destroy something you have to see the breaking points where the pieces used to connect, in order to create something you have to know the connecting points where you have to attach things to each other. 
It is just the direction of the act which differs. If you destroy you make nothing from anything, if you create you make nothing turn into something.

I learnt this from a practical experience, because I just destroyed my old sofa with my friend, since I wanted to get rid of it. It was lot of fun!
On Friday some random person drove on my hands the word "friendship" and an anarchy sign. I really felt the A when I brought the pieces of the sofa to the trash in my leggings, jeans shorts and my boots lol. A usual Sunday afternoon-activity. Well done :).

one of the songs we listened to while the process :
https://soundcloud.com/animaltrainer/animal-trainer-krambambuli




some background info to the topic:


Nietzsche represented the creative destruction of modernity through the mythical figure of Dionysus, a figure whom he saw as at one and the same time "destructively creative" and "creatively destructive". In the following passage from On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), Nietzsche argues for a universal principle of a cycle of creation and destruction, such that every creative act has its destructive consequence:
But have you ever asked yourselves sufficiently how much the erection of every ideal on earth has cost? How much reality has had to be misunderstood and slandered, how many lies have had to be sanctified, how many consciences disturbed, how much "God" sacrificed every time? If a temple is to be erected a temple must be destroyed: that is the law - let anyone who can show me a case in which it is not fulfilled! - Friedrich NietzscheOn the Genealogy of Morality

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction)

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