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The Black Box Inside You
Bring its data into the light. Otherwise, you‘re not free
After every plane crash, the search for the black box is a priority. The authorities will find all the flight data recorded there. The information it contains is what will shed light on the case. So, something black will give light…
Whether we are piloting an airplane or (we think we are piloting) our lives, we all have a “black box” inside us. It is the unconscious or the subconscious (depending on which theory each one embraces). Essentially, both include recordings, such as those of the black box of a plane.
All the things we could not interpret in our childhood, everything we misinterpreted, all those things that were distorted or misunderstood because that was the best each of us could do depending on the “means” we had back then, is there. And it affects us today. It lurks. It becomes the “filter” through which we automatically and unconsciously penetrate the information and stimuli we receive. It affects our actions and reactions, making us illiberal.
To clarify the case of a plane crash, the person in charge needs to listen to the information recorded in that box, to study it, to combine it, to take it into account, to observe, and finally, to conclude and do something with these conclusions. The person in charge of…
