whats more interesting, objectively?

Creativity.

In terms of destruction stemming creativity, we only have every truly interesting work in existence to cite; the whole gammit of note-worthy authors, philosophers, architects, pure artists etc. have a form of destruction, whether it be social, personal, or political, acting as catalyst to their work.

To be truly sublime you have to witness a city being burned to the ground, period. Everything else is the work of froo froo's.
The first round in this match: Celine vs. Proust
Loser: Proust w/ dislocated face

hazen wrote:In terms of destruction stemming creativity, we only have every truly interesting work in existence to cite; the whole gammit of note-worthy authors, philosophers, architects, pure artists etc. have a form of destruction, whether it be social, personal, or political, acting as catalyst to their work.

To be truly sublime you have to witness a city being burned to the ground, period. Everything else is the work of froo froo's.
The first round in this match: Celine vs. Proust
Loser: Proust w/ dislocated face

Celine vs. Proust...Is Don King promoting this???
I say it's not a fair fight because Proust was an invalid or something.

The world is brutal. Once one embraces the brutality of it, and at least once swims in amoral waters, then can they be their own person, have your own original view, and build upon a clean level for a real at perspective. The fact that Proust was an invalid is an excuse, we're surrounded by people with excuses. Result, Proust W/ dislocated face, right or wrong the world is hard, if he didn't have his aristocratic money then he would have died on the streets as ineffectual-like as his writing.

hazen wrote:The world is brutal. Once one embraces the brutality of it, and at least once swims in amoral waters, then can they be their own person, have your own original view, and build upon a clean level for a real at perspective. The fact that Proust was an invalid is an excuse, we're surrounded by people with excuses. Result, Proust W/ dislocated face, right or wrong the world is hard, if he didn't have his aristocratic money then he would have died on the streets as ineffectual-like as his writing.

So what's your vote? Creativity or destruction?

REALLY CUTE GUMMY BEARS, 4 EVA

"every act of creation is at first an act of destruction."

makes sense. to make music you gotta kill some quiet.

except "4'33." which i think is stupid. laziest song ever.

but when it comes to me taking the time to build a nice new thing or destroy an old worthless one, i much prefer the breaking of things.

I'll tell you what's destructive: dichotomous thinking.

In its unforced state, most of my writing -- almost all of my sentences and paragraphs -- sounds to me like someone throwing concrete blocks down a flight of stairs, destructive and ugly and bumpy and arrhythmic and flat. I hated it until it occurred to me that there could be good reasons to throw concrete blocks down stairs and that the sound could be enjoyable, so I hate it slightly less now. Sometimes you just have to clear some space any way you can.