After being buried for 4,000 years, he awakens to a world that has developed hubris, so he sets about on a mission to start from scratch and build what he considers a cleaner, purer world.
Anxious about Western geopolitical hubris, developing nations have begun to argue for a moratorium on experiments until there is agreement on some kind of global governance system.
The election hasn't even been won yet and there's already a liberal hubris developing.
Or, that was the case until the new millennium, when a combination of the advent of climate change, social media, the Arab Awakening, economic nationalism, developed country political hubris, terrorism, cross-border conflict, and cyber-risk combined to transform the world into a cauldron of competing vortexes, the likes of which has not been seen before.
In Hauser's prologue we can detect a certain hubris: "The arguments I will develop are different from those that have been offered to date...
Despite the hubris, he's contemplated his situation enough to develop something of a philosophy behind it.
The otherwise refreshingly sane Mark Hughes, fresh from having his every whim catered for at Manchester City, developed worrying signs of hubris when he took over at Fulham.
"Part of the bizarre but interesting psychology of the tech boom was the sense of hubris people developed, thinking they were impregnable to losses and defeats," said Joan DiFuria, a psychotherapist who is co-founder, with Stephen Goldbart, of the Money, Meaning and Choices Institute in Kentfield, Calif., north of San Francisco.
Via the process of obtaining power, hubris is developed.
Then hubris kicked in: Why settle for meager middleman profits when you can develop land and build homes yourself?
