Creative destruction

Natural Born Killers- probably one of those movies that influenced me quite a bit when I was younger. This week for over ten years I had a chance to see it again. And how did I like it? Well, to be honest, the movie had lost much of its touch. Ten years ago it seemed good and deep for me. Now, I really didn’t feel amazed or blown away- everything in the message seemed quite trivial. I guess, my idea about not re-reading some of the books that i read in my childhood, has payed off. It's just not worth spoiling the memories.

However, something still caught my mind. When I was watching the movie with Oliver Stone’s commentaries he expressed an interesting thought (at a point where there is a riot in the penitentiary): “Love of chaos. The energy that rebirth us is chaos, it’s an energy that invades us. We know, when we see it. It’s like hearing rock for the first time- some people are just scared of hearing things that they don’t know. They pull back- there is something dangerous in that.” What is it about chaos and rebirth? What is it about chaos and freedom? What is it about chaos theory and order behind that? Supposedly chaos is freedom, but what about rebirth through chaos? Sounds really like Shumpeter's economical expression of creative destruction- the creation that destroys all the new and thus creates innovation- the engine of progress in an economy. Well, i really have sympathy in this latter thought.