Monday, November 18, 2019

The cassandra curse thoughts and reflection

     The Cassandra curse is about a young woman named Cassandra who is given the ability to predict and prophecied the future. The only problem was that Cassandra spoke in very elaborate and complicated riddles. Many people couldn't understand her and thus didn't believe her, causing many deaths and tragedies. For example, during the Trojan war, Cassandra knew that the horse had people in it and was going to be used to destroy the people of troy, but no one believed her and troy soon fell.  Later in her life, Cassandra was killed with an axe.  Why did no one listen to her? not only was it because of her riddles, but I think it's because humans have a tendency to hear information and completely ignore it, leading to future calamity. 
Take the NASA space shuttle of 1986 for example.  On that day, a space shuttle exploded.  And it's not like anybody didn't know either, the engineers had seen errors in the system but were completely ignored, causing the death of the person inside.
 this is another example of people giving out warnings. But instead of people giving warnings, it is the climate giving warnings. The permafrost is melting, giving way to deceased plants and animals that are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere by 2x.  Glaciers are melting and the sea level is rising because of this.  More and more natural disasters are happening. Yet no one decides to do something about it.  What do you think about these reoccurring instances of warnings and ignorance? What do you think people could do to make warnings seem more disastrous? Tell me in the comments.         


2 comments:

  1. I do agree that sometimes people let things filter through their brains, and occasionally important information is lost. I think that in order for warnings to be taken more seriously, the person giving the warning really has to come in with some evidence that cannot be ignored. The problem that Cassandra had was that she couldn't give the people any proof, because saying that she can see into the future isn't very believable, so likewise, they didn't believe her.

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  2. I agree 100% on the fact that people sometimes hear information, and choose to ignore it because it doesn't follow what they believe in. If no one decides to believe in what's going on with our climate right now, there will be effects on our planet that are irreversible. This would be much worse than a few people dying on an Spacecraft. hundreds of thousands or millions of people could die to global warming. We need to take action to help our planet.

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