Old cheese and world health - The destructive force of creation and the creative force of destruction

Old cheese and world health - The destructive force of creation and the creative force of destruction 

So the old cheese from the last post had effects. Destructive and creative.

The forces of destruction and those of creation are the Ying and Yang of Taoism, the opposing forces of the dialectic in Marx's Historical Materialism.

It is how systems operate.

Other than the old chestnut of the need for something to be destroyed in order to create space for something else, destruction and creation are part of the fundamental force. Reality isn't about things -it's about the relationship between things.

Things are born, they have growth life, decay life and death. Everything is this!

Things come into being and grow and decay and die. Every movement 'of a finger' (thanks Keith) sparks a set of processes affecting other parts of the system. 

Most creation is without intention. In fact even creation with intention isn't really caused by the intention. The intention itself is caused by something else - or some things else.  

The Universe.
                   The Galaxies.
                                        The Solar Systems.
                                                                      The Planetary system.

                                                                                                           The Ecosystems.

The physical, chemical, biological, sociological, psychological and multitudinous other systems - all caused and causing at the same time.  Causation is complex.

All things come into being (brought into being), and die having touched and affected other things.

And in relationships with other things, setting off processes, sparking formations of systems.

Without the relationships, sustained by the systems, things that come into being would immediately die - at the exact point of birth. So cannot be considered to exist. And so could not have birth or death. And so I cannot speak of it.

Destruction is an essential element in this.

And yet we - I'm thinking less cosmically now - and so when I say "we" I refer to people (humans) rather than everything and every relationship between every thing that we know of or has been conceived (by humans)  - we people, in "today's society", have a bit of a downer on destruction in general. I don't mean a downer on just wars, and acts of violence ( I think it's ok to have a downer on wars and acts of violence - call me old fashioned...) There is a negative connotation to the word. It is seen as a bad thing. Creation is good, destruction is bad.

But every act of creation requires an act of destruction. Writing this is destructive and creative.

Sketching people on trains is an act of wanton destruction.

A blank sheet of paper, pure and perfect, is destroyed by physically scarring it with graphite. The life of the blank sheet is destroyed. It's blank sheetedness, with the cool deliberation of a psychopath, brought an end.

Potential gone.
Potential achieved.

Destroyed by creation.