SOME STORIES ABOUT THE CAPITAL VICES: HUBRIS (I)

The Grandma arriving to the City Hall

Last week, The Grandma returned to the City Hall to search some information. She's working in two new projects: for one hand, she's searching information about a civil refuge which was built under one of her houses in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and for other hand she's trying to have information about the new plans of the City Hall in her suburb. The City Hall wants to build some new buildings in the zone and some people are going to lose their homes in a new expropiation plan. Shame.

As you know, The Grandma is battling against The AntiChrist who is destroying the peaceful lives of the citizens. In her last visit to the City Hall, The Grandma was helped by two nice and kind civil workers who are also affected by The AntiChrist policy. They helped her in all her needs and we must accept that thanks to the enourmous work of these workers, especially in the last year, the City Hall is still alive.

After finding all the information that she was looking for, The Grandma did other burocratic works and she wrote a letter to the councillor. She doesn't hope anything good from because she practises something as old as the Victorian age: the double moral.

The Grandma in front of the City Hall

It is morally wrong to criticize the practices of other people unless one is prepared to be similarly critical of comparable practices when they occur in one's own.

It is morally wrong to criticize the practices of other people unless one's own has eradicated all evils of a comparable kind. 

These two basic rules of double moral are very common in this City Hall, a City Hall that treats its citizens like children, do nothing to improve their lives and disturbs constantly.

HUBRIS

In its modern usage, hubris denotes overconfident pride and arrogance. Hubris is often associated with a lack of humility.

Examples of hubris are often found in literature, most famously in Paradise Lost: John Milton's depiction of Lucifer, who attempts to force the other angels to worship him, is cast down to hell by God and the innocent angels, and proclaims: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven; Victor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manifests hubris in his attempt to become a great scientist by creating life through technological means, but eventually regrets this previous desire; Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus portrays the eponymous character as a scholar whose arrogance and pride compel him to sign a deal with the Devil, and retain his haughtiness until his death and damnation, despite the fact that he could easily have repented had he chosen to do so.

 I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
 

Kristan Higgins