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"Hubris" is the word of the year -- just as it could have been 24 centuries ago.
The Greek term for "excessive pride or self-confidence" was chosen by 41 percent
of the nearly 2,300 SFGate readers who participated in our online poll.
"Disaster," which got the most nominations from readers, finished second.
"Hubris" joins four far more modern words -- "nine-eleven," "nukular,"
"metrosexual" and "red state/blue state" -- as a winner of the five-year-old
SFGate.com contest.
Hubris was a central theme of Sophocles' play about the fall of King Oedipus,
which was honored at Athens' annual drama festival about 427 B.C.
This year, numerous commentators cited hubris as the cause of what they
considered human overreaching, from the below-sea-level development of New
Orleans to the U.S. war in Iraq.
Reached by river ferry at his home in Hades, the shade of Oedipus allegedly
commented: "Can't the media just forget about my lapse in judgment after all
these centuries? 'Tis enough to give one a complex."
And Nemesis is the Goddess who punishes Hubris, and She would like to thank all
the S.F. Gate readers for their vote and their discernment.
Alan
"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."
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