Life of the mind.
That’s pretty much what I remembered.
And that makes my SS division analogy reasonable.
Seems the Aztecs did roughly the same thing. Cortez, after getting some creds with the Aztecs’ tributary tribes by whipping them, found he had 100,000 volunteers to help him fight the Aztecs.
Might have been a bad move in the long run, but it tells you what kind of bosses the Aztecs were.
Presumably, Aztec regulars might have pulled a Thermopylae had the tactical and strategic situation allowed. Still doesn’t make them good guys.