The destructive character has a historical sense: a basic, invincible distrust of the course of events and a permanent awareness that everything can go wrong. Thus the destructive character is dependability itself.

The destructive character sees nothing lasting. But for this very reason he
everywhere sees ways and means. Where others come up against walls or mountains, there too he sees a way. But because he sees a way everywhere, he also has everywhere to clear the way. Not always with brute force, sometimes with its refinement. Because he sees ways everywhere, he himself always stands at the crossroads. No moment can know what the next will bring. He reduces the existing to rubble, not for the sake of the rubble but of the path that extends through it.

The destructive character does not live out of the feeling that life is worth living,
but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

– Walter Benjamin, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings