Pandora's box once opened released all the evil contained therein. Only it was a jar not a box and at the bottom was the spirit of hope. The story in my mind seemed to have a parallel with the garden of eden. In truth others had noticed the similarities, afterall Pandora was the first woman on earth.
In many ways I believe there is a perfect world that we all came from and go back to but that to allow the creation of the wonders that exist in this world, it is necessary for destruction to be possible too.
In other words the free will given to all who exist in this place allows for both good and evil.
My favourite quote is hope dies last...
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Linchpin
I saw a programme that had the idea within it that there could be a linchpin in the world, a person in this case that if they were killed the dominoes would fall inexorably until the entire earth was changed. In this example of the same idea I have seen elsewhere it would have lead to world war three and the end of life as we know it, the end of the United States of America.
In another example, a think tank got together and came up with a weakness that if exploited would have the same result and in the works of Isaac Asimov, a great writer of non-fiction and fiction alike he came up with the idea that it might be possible to look upon the world as a great cats cradle. That it might be credible to shape events by becoming familiar with future outcomes based on history.
Ultimately we're on a knife edge of new technologies, of old ways of living and being in the world, of pollution and climate change brought about by us, of possibly natural processes that are ongoing, of geopolitical and economic forces attempting to maintain the current status quo or to at least survive the stress and stimuli that are undoubtedly underway, you only have to look to see the growing pains.
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In classical Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on Earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create her. So he did, using water and earth.[5] The gods endowed her with many gifts: Athena clothed her, Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo gave her musical ability, and Hermes gave her speech.[6]
When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus.
Pandora was given a wedding gift of a beautiful jar, with instructions
to not open it under any circumstance. Impelled by her curiosity (given
to her by the gods), Pandora opened it and all evil contained therein
escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the container,
but the whole contents had escaped; Apate and all the others, except for one thing that lay at the bottom – the Spirit of Hope, named Elpis.[7]
Pandora, deeply saddened by what she had done, feared she would have to
face Zeus' wrath, since she had failed her duty. However, Zeus did not
punish Pandora because he knew this would happen.
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