They say that there is a beginning and an end to everything. This applies to everything in life and beyond it, possibly including a time scale that one may not fully comprehend such as the seeming eternal existence of the universe or eternity itself. It applies to mountains, that might have been flat several million years before. It also applies to the building that gradually erodes over time or is violently destroyed with detonation charges.
Creation and destruction are as yin is to yang. The former is representative of positive energy while the later is representative of negative energy. One could also call the creative process lawful while the destructive process is chaotic. However it would be incomplete to leave it at this just as it would be to suggest that only black and white exist on the spectrum of illumination.
The process of deconstruction is not a destructive force. It is the unraveling of the creative process in an orderly sequenced fashion. On the other hand the forces of erosion experienced by the pyramids would remain destructive in nature as there remains an element of chaos and it is only the scale of the damage caused that sets it apart from a mighty quake that rends rock from rock.
Hence this suggests that deconstruction and destruction are almost as oppositely aligned as creation and destruction are. It also implies that, as there can be a positive unraveling process, then so too can there exist a negative ravelling process, or a chaotic creative process. This would represent a number of creative processes in nature, perhaps also the creation of the World itself.
One thing that is almost always true is that it is far easier to utilize materials from a deconstruction for creative purposes than the utilization of materials from a destruction would be. In this regard perhaps it would be helpful for humanity to mull upon this point and think about how sustainable his or her lifestyle currently is and how sustainable it could be with a shift in perspective.
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