Necessity of Apocalypse

Apocalypse is necessary in order to change, whether for good or ill. We grow, change through the apocalypse of our character. Without the apocalypses there would be no change and no rebirth. An apocalypse to me is the destruction or death of one way of being and the start of another, a rebirth. So an apocalypse has to happen for change to occur. Otherwise there is no reason to take another step forward. There has to be a catalyst for change and that is apocalypse. With the apocalypse we introduce the before and after. Version 1 and version 2. Version 1 is reliant on the changes made to version 2 to exist. If there were no version 2 then version 1 would just be version. Like Hell and the Silver City of Neil Gaiman's "Season of Mists" book of the Sandman series. They both need to exist in order for either to exist. Like Saussure says of language, we know what a word is because of what it is not. Everything is tied together based on relation to each other. A dog is a dog because it is not a cat or a pig or a horse or a car. So Hell must exist to give definition and substance to the Silver City. Apocalypse must occur to give definition and substance to Version 1 and 2 and 7, to define all the changes made to an object or person from their beginning, or the beginning of the tracking of change, to the present time. When we begin to stagnate and cease to change that is when we die and even with death change does not stop. Our bodies decay turning into something else. Matter (nor energy) is created or destroyed, merely changes form.