Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.
That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope for singularity rests in his voice. Tone is everything.
Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there was a focus on self-destruction.
At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
