That's pretty much my interpretation of it, too.
It's always been ambiguous that we have all of those things because
Pandora supposedly let them
out of the box, and yet we have hope because
Pandora supposedly shut it
in the box.
I suspect it's become altered in the translation somewhere in the millenia since it was first invented!
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.