Art of Creative Destruction

What mythology saw as divine balance, capitalism named innovation. The world continues to burn and rebuild — faster, smarter, and perhaps, less human

- ADITYA GOLE

We need to harness the unbridled and unbound force of AI to rationalise and reason

Creative Destruction’ is the spicy oxymoron warming corporate dialogues and colonising newspaper rolls after the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for researching into a concept widely regarded as. a defining feature of capitalist economies.

As a compulsive accomplice in the chaotic cauldron of advertising or a perpetual student of English literature, is this a notion first heard of?

‘The answer is an emphatic ‘No.’ Pablo Picasso, aeons ago, postulated, “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” Ideas germinate or ideas pollinate when embedded systemic conventions are uprooted or ploughed out. PB Shelley's Ode to the West Wind signs off with ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind?’ emphasising the cosmic interplay of destruction and creation. When the West was going gaga over it, Indian mythology had comprehensively and definitively embodied ‘Creative Destruction’ in Lord Shiva and the empirical philosophy of ‘Srishti, Sthiti, Pralaya’.

Lord Shiva underlines the paradoxical principles of creation, destruction and transcendence. Shiva Tandava Strotam symbolises dynamism, where infinite patterns of energy melt into one unified reality. It also resonates in quantum physics, where particles are incessantly forming and dissolving, echoing the cosmic rhythm. Lord Shiva is the consciousness from whom everything emerges and evolves. He is the entirety of all the universal forces that destroy to create.