Creative Destruction Store - Small Lofts by Alejandro Bahamon

Great ideas for small living in smallish old style apartments, or lofts.

Creative Destruction Store - Female Genitalia 201 (Douglas O'Brian )

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Creative Destruction Store - The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Despite the heading of the book, this isn't some doomsday advocate (or warning) manual, or even a representation of an 'end of the world fetish (ok...maybe a little)'. It is however a book that looks at the popular culture idea or the epicenter of destruction; that being New York City. Whether that destruction be from tidal waves, nuclear bombs, biological attack, aliens attacking, virus/plagues and even zombies. "The City's End" is a pop culture analysis of NYC and it's destruction.

from The NEW YORKER review (exhert)

"Max Page, a professor of architecture and history, charts the evolution of popular fears in films, drawings, literature, video games, and amusement-park rides. His argument that “each era has found it useful to destroy New York in its own particular way” draws on theorists like Spengler and Sontag, but they are less illuminating than the gleeful illustrations, which attest to the notion that “no place looks better destroyed than New York.”

Creative Destruction Store - Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

In the vein of blog post Misplaced optimism is deadly - Alain de Botton


I love this quote re: Alain de Botton from the above link

"The modern bourgeois philosophy pins its hopes firmly on two great presumed ingredients of happiness, love and work. But there is vast unthinking cruelty discreetly coiled within this magnanimous assurance that everyone will discover satisfaction here. It is not that these two entities are invariably incapable of delivering fulfilment, only that they almost never do so for too long.

When an exception is misrepresented as a rule, our individual misfortunes, instead of seeming to us quasi-inevitable aspects of life, weigh down on us like particular curses. In denying the natural place reserved for longing and disaster in the human lot, the bourgeois ideology denies us the possibility of collective consolation for our fractious marriages, unexploited ambitions and exploded portfolios, and condemns us instead to solitary feelings of shame and persecution for having stubbornly failed to make more of ourselves"

I will be (slowly) migrating some of the MEC store stuff over to Creative Destruction