Author’s Note: 2 - Epilogue: Modern Civilization as the Destruction of Archaic Order
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Author’s Note: 2
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Hubris, Talent, and Wealth
Hubris as a consequence of wealth. Overweaning pride, becoming infinite in its desires; infinite as insatiable. Tantalus. (Shift to talent from Tantalus. The weight of his head.)
Talent. It originally meant “weight,” then weighed coinage, then riches. Then, the talent which money could buy, or the circular reasoning: that one had wealth because one was talented, which meant literally simply because one was rich, had a heavy weight of coinage.
