If there is one thing that didn't destroy the Greeks, it was exoteric Socratic philosophy Hmmm - you might be correct in the specific, but I posit that I am correct in the general.
It was a love of their own reasoning power that "done them in" as Eliza Doolittle might have said.
Shalom.
I think we agree...pride cometh before a fall, indeed. And we are nothing if not a proud nation, I should think.