The Greek derived word Hubris is much on everyone's mind I'm sure (I see it pop up regularly on this thread for obvious reason).
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Those of us who are looking ahead, trying to work out where this is landing and what the psychopaths at the top are really up to, should always keep in mind as teh day to day insanity and media storm engulfs us, that it is too often forgotten
that Hubris has a partner and that is Nemesis. The one inexorably follows the other.
Whatever it is the PTB think it is they are doing, and for whatever reason/s, this is the follow on factor they have now less than zero control over.
The biggest of Rumsfeld's "unknown, unknowns" (yet it was a "known, known" by all the wise in the ancient world). These people think they are gods. The ultimate in Hubris. The cosmos will respond accordingly...
She is coming...
(the below is simply edited from Wiki - it says it all for those who can read between the lines of even their dead pan assessment)
Hubris
Hubris (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/, from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes
a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with (or synonymous with)
arrogance. In its ancient Greek context, it typically describes behavior that
defies the norms of behavior or challenges the gods which, in turn,
brings about the downfall of the perpetrator of hubris. The adjectival form of the noun
hubris is "hubristic".
Hubris often indicates
a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities.
Ancient Greek origin
Common use
In ancient Greek,
hubris referred to “outrage“: actions that violated natural order, or which shamed and humiliated the victim, sometimes for the pleasure or gratification of the abuser.
In ancient Athens, hubris was defined as the use of
violence to shame the victim (this sense of hubris could also characterize rape). Aristotle defined hubris as
shaming the victim, not because of anything that happened to the committer or might happen to the committer, but merely
for that committer's own gratification:
"...to cause shame to the victim, not in order that anything may happen to you, nor because anything has happened to you, but merely for your own gratification. Hubris is not the requital of past injuries; this is revenge. As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: naive men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater."
Crucial to this definition are the ancient Greek concepts of honour (τιμή,
timē) and shame
Religious use
A common way that hubris was committed was when a mortal claimed to be better than a god in a particular skill or attribute.
Claims like these were rarely left unpunished… events were not limited to myth, and certain figures in history were considered to be have been punished for committing hubris through their arrogance.
What is common to all these examples is the breaching of limits, as the Greeks believed that the Fates (Μοῖραι) had assigned each being with a particular area of freedom, an area that even the gods could not breach.
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Nemesis -
Goddess of retribution
In ancient Greek religion,
Nemesis, also called Rhamnousia or Rhamnusia ("the goddess of Rhamnous"), is
the goddess who enacts retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods).
Etymology
The name
Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν
némein, meaning "
to give what is due", from Proto-Indo-European
nem- "
distribute".
Origin
Divine retribution is a major theme in the Hellenic world view… she is
implacable justice: that of Zeus in the Olympian scheme of things, although it is
clear she existed prior to him, as her images look similar to several other goddesses, such as Cybele, Rhea, Demeter, and Artemis.
As the "Goddess of Rhamnous", Nemesis was honored and placated in an archaic sanctuary in the isolated district of Rhamnous, in northeastern Attica.
There she was a daughter of Oceanus , the primeval river-ocean that encircles the world.
(this is where comets come from... as they swim the tide and feel the prevailing current....)
She is portrayed as a winged goddess wielding a whip or a dagger.
The poet Mesomedes wrote a hymn to Nemesis in the early second century AD, where he addressed her:
"Nemesis, winged balancer of life, dark-faced goddess, daughter of Justice..."
and mentioned her "
adamantine bridles" that restrain "the frivolous insolences of mortals".
Later, as the maiden goddess of proportion and the avenger of crime, she has as attributes
a measuring rod (tally stick), a bridle, scales, a sword, and a scourge, and she rides in a chariot drawn by griffins.
Fortune and retribution
In the Greek tragedies Nemesis appears chiefly as the avenger of crime and the punisher of hubris, and as such is akin to Atë and the Erinyes. She was sometimes called "Adrasteia", probably meaning
"one from whom there is no escape"; her epithet
Erinys ("implacable") is specially applied to Demeter and the Phrygian mother goddess, Cybele.
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