Cassandra Complex

As I was watching the movie "Twelve Monkeys" I came across the term "Cassandra Complex".

Quote from "Cassandra (metaphor)" wikipedia article:

"The Cassandra metaphor (variously labelled the Cassandra 'syndrome', 'complex', 'phenomenon', 'predicament', 'dilemma', or 'curse'), is a term applied in situations in which valid warnings or concerns are dismissed or disbelieved.

The term originates in Greek mythology. Cassandra was a daughter of Priam, the King of Troy. Struck by her beauty, Apollo provided her with the gift of prophecy, but when Cassandra refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a curse ensuring that none would believe her warnings. Cassandra was left with the knowledge of future events, but could neither alter these events nor convince others of the validity of her predictions.

The metaphor has been applied in a variety of contexts such as psychology, environmentalism, politics, science, cinema, the corporate world, and in philosophy, and has been in circulation since at least 1949 when French philosopher Gaston Bachelard coined the term 'Cassandra Complex' to refer to a belief that things could be known in advance."

Imagine if seeing the future was possible but preventing those visions from happening would be impossible. Would such a person even want to live? You would know what everyone will say before they say it, you would know when the apocalypse happens and what caused it, you would know how everything goes down before it actually does - you would be a God.

In my opinion it's impossible for such prophetic vision to exist. Everyone changes their mind on things frequently, no power could ever calculate all the final outcomes beforehand. If you know some person really well, you may predict what he or she will do next, but that doesn't mean you have a supernatural gift. If the gift of prophecy would exist in its entirety in the first place, no one could possibly handle all that knowledge in a human brain.

What if this all happened before? What if the future is the present and we all are but a replay of the past? That would be interesting but sounds plain impossible. Even if someone lives in the future and travels back in time, for the sake of argument, he would only know about the things that he has wittnessed happening in the past or has read about in the future.

Remember the past, feel the present and dream of the future.