The Cult of Destruction and Cynicism

The Greek word logos has multiple meanings, including "word," "thought," or "principle." Deep and extended exercises in the realm of thought/idea through the vehicle of reason can take us down some dark corridors if we are not grounded in logos as defined by John. "In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word (Logos) was God" (John 1:1).

But God grounds us and guides us if we are willing to listen. If we are not, we can become fascinated with myopia and pessimism as seemed to have happened with Schopenhauer.  

"Schopenhauer’s particular characterization of the world as Will is nonetheless novel and daring. It is also frightening and pandemonic: he maintains that the world as it is in itself (again, sometimes adding “for us”) is an endless striving and blind impulse with no end in view, devoid of knowledge, lawless, absolutely free, entirely self-determining and almighty. Within Schopenhauer’s vision of the world as Will, there is no God to be comprehended, and the world is conceived of as being inherently meaningless. When anthropomorphically considered, the world is represented as being in a condition of eternal frustration, as it endlessly strives for nothing in particular, and as it goes essentially nowhere. It is a world beyond any ascriptions of good and evil." - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 

A cult of destruction and cynicism may be "daring" but it is not new. It is as old as the events leading up to the first dragon falling from the sky.