Lots of ways to reflect on this post as a metaphor 
The wound marks that you come back from the front are visible to witness. The area where the wounds cannot be seen means a fatal injury & no return from the front. We plaster over the visible wounds, while the really open wounds are left unprotected.

The conscious wounds that we can see and feel we try to ignore but acknowledge as traits, weaknesses or vulnerabilities. The unseen unconscious wounds are the ones that have most impact because they are unknown so allowed to gather force.

One example of this is to keep busy. Life is orientated around busyness. We consume, exercise, buy, to create a diversion to our invisible wounds. Ambition, development, drive, progress, growth are essential measures in a digital market economy.
But now we are in the post digital economy: lets see how far more effective this is in soothing our wounds.

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