Chris Williamson nails the Cassandra Complex in one brutal truth: Being right too early feels worse than being wrong. You see the storm coming, warn everyone—and get mocked, dismissed, labeled alarmist, xenophobic, out-of-touch, or crazy. Greek myth: Cassandra was given perfect prophecy by Apollo, then cursed so no one would ever believe her. She predicted Troy’s fall. No one listened. The city burned. Real history echoes it: - Rachel Carson warned about pesticides in Silent Spring (1962). Chemical industry smeared her as hysterical. Decades later, DDT was banned and the modern environmental movement was born. - Ignaz Semmelweis begged doctors to wash hands in the 1840s to stop childbed fever. Colleagues laughed. He died in an asylum. Germ theory proved him right 20 years later. - Copernicus delayed publishing heliocentrism for decades, releasing it only on his deathbed to avoid backlash. Galileo shouted the same truth a century later—and was tried by the Inquisition, forced to recant, and lived under house arrest for life. Being right isn’t enough. Being early can destroy you. The world punishes prophets until the disaster arrives—then suddenly they’re visionaries. Who’s the Cassandra in your life (or in today’s headlines) that you now realize was right way too soon?