The Surprise Mechanics of Addiction | Loot Boxes

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The story of Pandora is a common myth heard among many civilizations and societies across the world, though with each culture, it tends to change. Like the story of Adam and Eve, knowledge is often seen as a burden, or a curse. Pandora’s box is a cautionary tale that warns against the breaking of vows, and the dangers that come from curiosity and the obtaining of forbidden knowledge. When Pandora was born, Zeus gifted her a gilded box. He told her that under no circumstances should any mortal be allowed to gaze into the contents.
Every time Pandora saw the box, however, an urge to open it came over her. She resisted the temptation for as long as she could until one day, her curiosity over took her willpower and she opened it. Evil spilled out of the box and into the world of mortals whereas before this time, mortals knew nothing of good nor evil. With this knowledge, chaos would sew destruction across the land but at the end, something else came out. Something glittering and golden. A radiant light spilled out. That light was hope so while mortals would now know the desperation and terror of evil, they would also have the hope required to fight it.
Carl Jung wrote that the Psyche is broken up into two realms. The Conscious Realm and the Unconscious Realm. The unconscious realm consists of the Personal Unconscious which is comprised of past experiential biases collected throughout life, and the Collective Unconscious which is a collection of societal biases. Jung called those biases, Archetypes.
For the most part, people live in the realm of the unconscious for the majority of their day. The unconscious consists of biases which inform instincts and allow us to function day to day without expending mental energy. Jung stated that to realize one’s true self, one would have to confront the unconscious, and in doing so, confront the shadow self that lies inside of each of us. He implies that until the shadow is exposed to light, it will grow inside us, blacker and denser.
The shadow is not inherently evil. It is a collection of all the traits and proclivities we do not wish to admit we have. When we wonder why the neo-liberal operates the way they do with a seeming disregard for human decency, we chalk it up to sociopathy. If Carl Jung is right, however, we may be seeing a shadow self that has grown so dark, so dense, that before it gives up the thing that is killing it, they will collapse in on themselves like a blackhole, dragging everything around it into the abyss.

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