Pandora's Box

You have heard the saying "Pandora's Box" before? The archetypal origin of that story i.e.: where the phrasing developed--what Pandora is--where the image of the box came from is something I do not know. But the essence of the saying is that within the box there are a series of forces that if unleashed would disrupt the order of things irreparably. Am I right? When I was a debater , within a disadvantage (a position ran on the negative to prove that by affirming the resolution in the way the opponent does you enable severe consequences--usually culminating in nuclear annihilation) one used the phrase Pandora's Box to describe the opening into the impact--the act that led to the consequence. I have heard it used in other settings of course--it has an element of descriptiveness that keeps it useful. It is especially interesting when it is used unexpectedly--when the use of it indicates a depth of focus that seems dramatic and mysterious. What exactly is in that Pandora's Box that we can't open? Lately--instead of wishing I could see inside this package, Thinking of it as contained in this box of consequence, I try to think of it more like Pangea. The origins of this earth in general. Separations and faults pulling connectedness apart, stretching it out and transforming the ties. Pangea is already outside the box, it was the material origin of our inhabited space that has been reordered it is also the box--the line comes from a limited view of the circle. I think of water splashing over shores, I think of mountains rising high, blue sky and white clouds and cities faraway, I think of all the things that could be in that box.