The Curse of Being a Cassandra

We all know how it goes. Talking with someone you know until suddenly you have a disagreement. It could be something as small as whether they prefer cats or dogs, or something as big as how the world may end. Almost always, there are two sides, and the people on each side stick with their side unless there is an overload of compelling evidence. Even then, some may not believe the other sides' point. This is especially prominent though when you have little to no evidence at all.

In the story of Cassandra, she has the all-desired ability of seeing the future, but what people don't know is that it comes with it's costs. Since no one else was able to see the future, no one believed her. In our current day, I don't believe there are any actual people that 'see the future' in complete, clear ways, but there are people who read others well or have coincidental divination. Both of which could be considered seeing the future, but still there isn't much of a strong argument with things like those.

I believe you (in most cases) can win arguments by setting out understandable, cogent information to back up your claims. There are some you will never win though, especially in topics such as religion. If your claim/argument is serious enough, and others think it will affect them in the very near future, people (being self centered) decide its worth the time to think about because otherwise humanity, which includes them, will perish. Widespread actions are taken when the general public agrees that something is affecting them for the worse and they protest or bring it to an official.

My thoughts on the tunnel situation is that the argument is completely valid, just commonly overlooked. The ice is melting, and in my opinion the reason for this is the massive slaughter of livestock to feed people. Overall, not all arguments can be won, but they may plant an idea in someone's mind and they may believe it when they need to.  You may say; well, wouldn't they believe it now? But no, sadly not. I reckon it's too late. We figured out much too slowly for the problem to be completely stopped. All we can do now is prevent it, since the time window it was needed has already passed.


We all will one day fall victim to the end of the world, even if it's just our skeleton being crushed underground, but will you choose to postpone it?