Abject condition

Man's trespassing into the divine realm comes up as a problem typically only in the context of Man in a condition of abundance. So long as a people is living in oppression, as has been the case for the Jewish people for almost two millennia, for example, the people's spiritual leaders need not concern themselves with matters of hubris or reverence because the people don't in any case have the power to breach the choq lines. When a people find themselves in abject condition they cannot imagine wielding so much power and glory that it would rival the divine powers that govern the daily life of the people and their leaders. 

An abject people will typically breed a culture that inclines to the modest and the meek and the submissive and subservient – in a word, 'yeshivish'. In such a case it is not crucial for the people to observe the boundaries that are defined by the chuqim because the people anyway don't have the kind of power that would make the observance of the chuqim binding.