self-destruction

Self-destructive behavior and fantasies thereof are an integral part of contemporary psychological and mythological experience. It is a truism that human beings have reached the point of technological power that is literally destroying life as we know it on a planetary scale. It is less widely accepted that, before moving on to opposing or discounting this idea, the complex in which it resides reveals essential information about how we are living and what human beings need (and will continue to consciously and unconsciously co-create) in the current cultural moment.