"The more highly developed a civilization, the more accomplished the world it has produced, the more at home men feel within the human artifice – the more they will resent everything they have not produced, everything that is merely and mysteriously given to them." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 300).
The true antidote to hubris is the transformation of the artificial, be it economic productivity or political governance, from a state of nature to a state of covenantal relationship.
The consecratory act is an artificial act that makes humble the artifice of productivity or governance. Consecration mitigates the natural impulse to hubris.
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