Heads

Heads,
All of them,
Creating havoc.


David Owen, a former British Foreign Secretary, coined the term Hubris syndrome. Originally a Greek word, Hubris refers to excessive pride that violates the bounds set for humans; that is, a behaviour that defies the norms and which  will thus bring about a person downfall. The Hubris syndrome refers to personality change in people with power; leaders of nations for example, who in the course of duty,  lose touch with reality and start to take excessive pride in their actions.They start to  display lesser empathy towards other people, and make arrogant decisions without much thought. I suppose World Wars are created when leaders of the world suffer the syndrome simultaneously.





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