the hubris of idiots

Fun fact: both idiot and hubris are from Ancient Greek and they still mean today pretty much what they meant in 500 BC. Idiot had some benign meanings that it has lost, but the idea of someone who is ignorant, uneducated, or not in the know is very much there. Hubris still has the original connotation of pride, insolence, and arrogance that it did for the Athenians.

Thus, it is perfectly reasonable to think that “the hubris of idiots” may be one of the oldest ways to describe the special blend of ignorance and arrogance that defines 21st century regressive political movements world-wide.


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