Chris Williamson
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Podcast Appearances
It causes you to want to burn tires.
I want to buy spray paint and fucking hairspray and just blow it up by my car.
Have you heard of the Cassandra complex?
Do you know what this is?
Fucking brilliant, dude.
So in ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra is given the gift of being able to see the future by Apollo.
And then she rejects his advances.
And he says that for the rest of time, you're still going to be able to see the future, but people aren't going to believe you.
So she foresees the downfall of Troy.
She warns everybody, people don't listen.
And it's basically being right, but early.
So Rachel Carson, she wrote that book, Silent Spring, 1962.
It's about DDT, environmental epidemics.
She gets mocked by scientists, castigated by everybody, but her work led to the banning of DDT.