Here in the US, one can observe an enormous amount of energy bound up in antagonisms: all of the analysis spent on what is going wrong, or taking apart some popular and efficacious piece of propaganda, or tearing apart one's social and political rivals' positions, and etc. Consider all of the legal and political fighting and energy trying to veto some sort of hostile act or takeover, or else fraudulent and malevolently manipulative behavior.
Of course, deconstruction or demolition is what you have to do in a remodel in which the existing infrastructure is so degraded, rotten, or nonsensical that it would be impossible to build upon it.
