Is This The Draw Of Pandora?

[Fkeu'itan]

Originally Posted by ZenitYerkes

It is not that Pandora is desirable because it represents a perfect, no disease, no famine, neither suffering nor problem-free paradise--

What Zenit raised here is something I have thought for quite a while now. We live in a clincal environment. Everything is done for us easily, no effort required. Therefore there is no sense of pleasure in much any more. Vital tasks such as gathering supplies like food and water are so easy to acquire that instead of the social and bonding aspect of -for example - hunting your prey, and the satisfaction that comes of a clean kill with something you have crafted and learned with your own fair hand, we just go to a shop and buy it.

I think perhaps one of the draws of Pandora herself is that there IS a certain danger, a certain sense of grit, dirt and (in all honesty) manual reality to things, it raises the stakes just that little bit higher. Stakes that in our modern world barely (perhaps in many cases don't) exist. Animals, plants, even the very environment is dangerous. Perhaps it sparks something primal within us that we all feel we need, a sense of adventure, a sense of threat.

It challenges our clinical world and takes us back to a time when we and what we did were real, not done through a proxy.