Destructivism

Who are we? Where are we heading? What is the universe and our purpose within it? Destructivism is a philosophical discussion about humanity and the world in general, assessing the grand questions of existence and of our way of life.

The first section concerning politics, covers such topics as democracy, capitalism, identity, freedom, war, globalisation, and justice. The ethics section talks about love, hate, life, trust, and fairness. The epistemology section addresses consciousness, dreams, death, soul, and knowledge. While metaphysics discusses virtuality, determinism, time, and a theory of everything unveiling an entirely new physics, to explain the world we live in.

Between 2008 and 2011, several of these essays gathered a lot of attention, as they were published as articles on independent news websites. Despite Destructivism not being overtly controversial, it led me to being placed under surveillance with not one, but two vans sitting at all times outside my flat in London.

My landline was making strange clicking noises, my computer was under constant attack and rendered unusable, and I even received veiled threats. But this pales in comparison to my close friend, a writer who helped with the research and inspiration for these articles, being found dead soon after saying she had been poisoned.

Either writing philosophy equates to being a domestic terrorist to be censored, intimidated or eliminated, or there must be something in this book which was frightening some powerful people. Perhaps it was the essays about dystopia, dictatorship, despotism, economics, New World Order, or rigged elections?

It certainly drives the point home, that unless as a society we soon regain our common sense, we will continue to head towards self-destruction. In a way this book was quite prophetic, since less than a decade later, we pretty much achieved self-destruction. Destructivism helps uncover how we got there in the first place.