Hubris

Half the country, including many top intellectuals, literally think that everybody who came before us was an evil rube, wrong about everything, confused about their material conditions, angry, racist, irrational.

This is not a good foundation on which to build an understanding… https://t.co/j6ijRHEK38
— wanye (@wanyeburkett) June 27, 2025

Yes. Moreover, we all have kind of accepted that humanity was completely wrong about absolutely everything in every possible way for the entirety of its existence until exactly 3 minutes ago.

I can’t think of a word to describe this attitude other than hubris.