destructiviness

Updated: May 3, 2025

Early in this study I wrote of civilization as an experiment: an aspiration, a creative urge, a concept, a purpose, a unity of thought and act, a conscious sequence of related actions, a construct of multiplying complexity. These terms, by and large, are constructive and, to a degree, creative. I might have written a parallel series of words associated with destructiviness.

Scott Nearing - Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History