The foxhole reveals who you truly are, and some people just are that big of nerds it turns out.

To be fair to Aristotle, he was only able to expose himself to the ideas of four to five idiots a day. Today, with the power of social media, we can read the opinions of thousands of idiots before breakfast.

I bet all the smart people were like "dude, do NOT ride that horse!", demonstrating how intelligence can impede the progress of the human race, if what we need to progress is something really stupid.

We just have to come up with one really big lie, to get everyone to love the truth...

Don't worry, later Emperors ended up embracing Confuscian thought, which surely made them all super virtuous and never use brutality and fear to enforce their rule...surely...