Opening Pandora's Box

[drwex]

Question for the assembled readership:
You step out your front door one day and find a box, labeled "for Pandora". Do you open it?

That said, Pandora by the Music Genome Project has totally captured my Web radio listening. My station is "Wex Eclectic Radio." What's yours?

I blogged about Pandora last week, for Copyfight. Since then the station has given me a lot of new artists to buy from and inferred a number of things about my musical tastes.

I'm still offering interview questions to anyone who wants me to ask them things. I friends-locked the original posting containing my answers because some of the info there was personal and I'm not sure it was OK to publish it generally. Fair being fair, if you want to ask me questions, go ahead.

Comments

[drwex]

Clearly not, both from literal and religious points of view. Literally - here on Earth, with all the flaws and fabulousness of a real actual world. From an ethical/religious point of view Eden describes a state of blissfull ignorance, lacking the knowledge of good and evil. Where we all live today? Not so much on the lacking.

[aelf.livejournal.com]

I guess my question is more ... from what's in the box perspective. Could Pandora's box hold other things in it that, when released, would bring home to us how we *are* in Eden, now?

Do I think Pandora's box could hold things that make our current world seem like a garden of endless delights? Yes.

Do I think the "hope" that would follow if we opened the box long enough would make it worth opening? Dithering. Probably not.

[drwex]

Right, I see. That's sort of the key point to the question. In the fable Pandora opens the box and lets out all sorts of ills into the world, but in the end Hope also emerges. The question is whether you think it's worth the tradeoff.