Creative Destruction

[Richard Fiero]

Ian Livingston wrote:
>I know nothing about this 'creative destruction' as a capitalist
>compulsion, but it sounds like it might be a great way of rephrasing
>early modernist European 'nihilism', as advocating the destruction of
>haywire systems so that working ones might replace them. It was a
>central tenet of early anarchism, especially as represented in
>Dostoevsky, that all government is bad government. Is that, I wonder,
>what is more pertinent in Pynchon?
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"Creative destruction" is in the dustbin along with social Darwinism. 
With respect to hating the government, we can equate the Tea Party 
with al-Qaeda.