The Cyclical Hubris Paradox or the reason we fail

The Cyclical hubris paradox, or the reason we fail is a concept developed by the High King Galadrius Nidavellirson to analyse Dalmer abiogenesis. In his book, The Metaphysical egg the high king develops the CHP, aka the Come Time, or the End of Days.
== Overview ==
The theory he develops is that the Dalmers long history and lineage (and the fact that they are aware that they are “unnaturally” long lived in historical terms) is proof that their role on the world that they inhabit is to have a long term vision on what surrounds them, so as to prevent their own destruction, as well as the destruction of the world on which they live, but the Dalmer do not worship the world around them (given their general opposition to any form of religion), which is the classic rebuttal of the theory. 
=== Religious Counter argument ===
A counter argument that the High King gives, is that the Dalmer are not attached to their world because they are in fact a nomadic race, but these migrations only happen at times so incredibly far away from one another that they cannot possibly remember, (or rather they try to remember it via ancestor worship, or by engraving stones to remember these memories, but neither is an effective solution given the time that passes between migrations). 
=== Sedentary Lifestyle argument ===
This gives in to the second rebuttal that the Dalmer are mostly sedentary in their lifestyles, the High King argues that because the time between migrations is so long that the newly settled Dalmer transition to sedentary stages on their adoptive world, and in time this gives them the illusion that they originate from the world, as no one remembers their previous lives on other worlds and as such in their mindset couldn’t possibly be nomadic, as their only information sources (oral and written sources) are inaccessible in the long term.
The Son of Nidavellir continues that this racial attachment to nomadism and traveling is then corrupted due to stagnation and sedentarism on the world to such an extent that they cannot emotionally or psychologically attach themselves to where they live, instead constructing strong bonds with their kin, their families their countries or their material wealth (although the last two could be considered a corruption of the worship of land), although some Dalmer are thought to retain this hardwired need to travel (ie: explorers, archeologists and adventurers, but this is debated).
The final stage of the paradox is that in the Dalmers endeavour to rediscover the reason of their doom, they recreate it, and must then flee their homelands for safer havens.
In order to prevent this for their future generations, the Dalmer try to remind themselves via oral and written tradition of their past mistakes, but with the passing time the Dalmer become so comfortable in their new settlements that they call them their ancestral homes, and develop habits, such as valuing information, and keeping secrets as a hierarchy naturally occurs in the “new society”. As such, the warnings made by their ancestors are ultimately ignored, because, in their research of their origins, they ultimately repeat their mistakes and doom their race to relocate and begin a new cycle, recreating the Cyclical Hubris Paradox.
=== Reasons to fear the CHP ===
The main issue at this point for critics of the End of Days theory is why discovering their origins should naturally cause the destruction of the Dalmer, the High King cites several reasons that he considers validate legitimate concern.
The first reason being that the rediscovery of these ancient Dalmer would cause an appearance of extreme ancestor worship that would divide the Dalmer ideologically, (the High King coming to power relatively young would explain his distrust of the belief that age equates to wisdom). 
Another more plausible reason is that the discovery of the ancient Dalmers technology would imbalance warring factions, or lead to violent diplomatic tensions, leading to an arms race and cause their demise due to poor understanding of the technology.
Nidavellirson cites two methods of transmitting the ancestor Dalmers’ warning to future generations, via Ancestor worship, and Stone engraving.
=== Ancestor Worship ===
Because their ancestors knew of the Come Time, Dalmer elders become subconsciously and culturally worshipped in Dalmer culture for their knowledge of these events, despite the fact that they don't / forget as generations pass, the information becomes diluted, disputed, and ultimately dismissed. And so the only remains of the End of Days is that elders should be honored and revered for their knowledge and wisdom but not specifically their knowledge of the paradox.
=== Stone engraving ===
The practice of written tradition that the Dalmer pass along to warn themselves of the End of Days, but over the course of millennia, they ultimately forget, the original settlements where the stones depicting the Come Time are engraved are abandoned/destroyed over time or the engraved stones are insufficiently produced, impossible to interpret, or become inaccessible or destroyed for different reasons. 
== In short: ==
Hubris: The Dalmer, in the search of their origins, eventually destroy their civilization by the very secrets their ancestors kept, and seek refuge elsewhere, possibly in new lands or different realms. As such it is the hubris of the ancestor Dalmer that is their undoing.
Cyclical: The newly settled Dalmer, construct warnings for future generations so as to avoid repeating the mistakes of their ancestors. But as generations pass the settlers become more and more advanced, and begin to seek out their origins, eventually uncovering the secrets of their ancestors, and eventually destroy their world they consider their home. thus becoming cyclical in nature.
Paradox: The paradox is that it is in their search for their origins the Dalmer completely ignore or misinterpret the warnings that they created aeons ago for this exact reason.
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