{"id":683,"date":"2012-03-08T23:27:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T05:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=683"},"modified":"2012-03-20T15:40:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T21:40:21","slug":"new-seven-deadly-vices-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"New Seven Deadly Vices: Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Humility is often just a feigned submissiveness employed to dominate others. It is a stratagem of pride, which lowers itself that it may raise itself; and though pride wears a thousand masks, it is never better disguised than when it wears the mask of humility itself.<\/em> — La Rochefoucauld<\/p>\n

When a virtue exceeds moderation and mutates into some impossible ideal, it has become a vice. Humility as a Christian virtue has metamorphosed into something artificial today– a mask of hypocrisy — where prominent figures appeal to the masses with humble gestures.<\/p>\n

Besides a pretense, humility is historically the cloak of the frail and passive — a sign language of the naturally weak that are unable to assert themselves. However, it is the priestly class that drilled such sign language\u00a0into the masses for the sake of control.<\/p>\n

Not only is humility mostly false, it also appeals to the jealous and the petty– reinforcing a culture of hypocrisy in the public realm. Thus it serves a petty desire to avoid upsetting others – a true indication of egotism that compromises itself for the sake of self-preservation.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the virtue of humility slaps a pillory on ambitious individuals from difficult or challenging backgrounds, stunting their potential to contribute to society.<\/p>\n

Humility, according to Aristotle, was micropsuchia<\/em> — a deficiency, while its opposite, vanity was an excess. The golden means between the two is modesty – which is a balanced judgment superior to both vices. Modesty is the clear awareness of one’s limits, whereas humility is humiliation — or precisely, the exaggeration of one’s shortcomings. It is better to be honest and modest, than a self-serving hypocrite that appears humble on cue.<\/p>\n

#1. Ignorance<\/a><\/p>\n

#2. Seriousness<\/a><\/p>\n

#3. Mediocrity<\/a><\/p>\n

#4. Prudery<\/a><\/p>\n

#6. Self-Deception<\/a><\/p>\n

#7.\u00a0Boredom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Humility is often just a feigned submissiveness employed to dominate others. It is a stratagem of pride, which lowers itself that it may raise itself; and though pride wears a thousand masks, it is never better disguised than when it wears the mask of humility itself. — La Rochefoucauld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[2],"tags":[196,257,109,252],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Af2X-b1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}