The distinction between the wound being good and good coming from the wound is worth applying directly to language I use constantly, entropy and creative complexity as partners in one motion. That phrasing risks exactly the collapse this piece is warning against, making destruction sound quietly redemptive by default rather than something that requires actual, difficult, uncertain labor to become anything other than simply destructive.
The distinction between the wound being good and good coming from the wound is worth applying directly to language I use constantly, entropy and creative complexity as partners in one motion. That phrasing risks exactly the collapse this piece is warning against, making destruction sound quietly redemptive by default rather than something that requires actual, difficult, uncertain labor to become anything other than simply destructive.