I went to wikipedia to see what was up with today's xkcd alt-text, and it was worth it. Here is the highlight for the wikipedia article on deconstruction:
Deconstruction is the process of reducing things to their component entities, and examining their assumptions. Here, the New Haven Coliseum sports arena is deconstructed into its component entities, which a Judeo-Christian might find to be topologically homeomorphic to ash and dust particles, illustrating the Judeo-Christian concept of ashes to ashes, dust to dust. However, a Buddhist might see the coliseum reincarnating into an ethereal cloud, and a Zen Buddhist might ask: What is the sound of one building reincarnating?. An advocate of deconstruction might argue that we privilege our chosen worldview in what we see, while a physicist might argue the objective reality to be : First there was a building. Then it blew up.
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