http://benatlas.com/2009/10/whats-easier-to-build-or-to-destroy/ the curatorship of possibilities: a creed centered on the urban ethos Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://benatlas.com/2009/10/whats-easier-to-build-or-to-destroy/#comment-3611 Ben Atlas Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:34:31 +0000 http://benatlas.com/?p=5323#comment-3611 rss works for me. rss works for me.

]]> http://benatlas.com/2009/10/whats-easier-to-build-or-to-destroy/#comment-3601 Isaac Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:12:25 +0000 http://benatlas.com/?p=5323#comment-3601 I think that the correct application of this analogy as it applies to human relationships, would be to say that it is much easier to let a relationship go bad, or even to ruin a relationship, then it is to work at maintaining and developing a relationship. Clearly amongst people as amongst things, disassembly is by far more difficult then assembly. Yet to destroy is more difficult then to build almost as a law of nature, since there is only one way to get things right, and many ways in which they can go wrong. I think that the correct application of this analogy as it applies to human relationships, would be to say that it is much easier to let a relationship go bad, or even to ruin a relationship, then it is to work at maintaining and developing a relationship. Clearly amongst people as amongst things, disassembly is by far more difficult then assembly. Yet to destroy is more difficult then to build almost as a law of nature, since there is only one way to get things right, and many ways in which they can go wrong.

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