New Age Barbarism

We have been slowly entering a new age of barbarism, albeit one far different than Robert E. Howard could ever envision. It’s taken decades of systemic anarcho-tyranny and abuse for this new era of savagery to emerge. When laws are consistently unequally enforced, we find ourselves in this alien world. The State, which exists solely to protect you from barbarians and those who would do you harm, is now dedicated to robbing you and punishing you for defending yourself and your property. This new age will be, quite literally, barbaric in the coming years.

Vigilante justice is one of the first warning signs of this occurring. I don’t believe the boys in Georgia were vigilantes per se, more of community protection. I think they had every right to go about the situation the way they did, only time (and evidence) will reveal what really happened. However, our justice system is no longer designed to deal with these situations and circumstances. It may have been at one point, but in my lifetime our system hasn’t been capable of defending the people from the barbarians and now the citizens are slowly turning into barbarians as a response. Bernhard Goetz is a good example of a system that produces barbarism due to widespread decay and loss of control.

However, let’s look at two (2) current events happening now. The first case involves an African American man recording himself beating the tar out of seniors in a nursing home. He then posted the videos online and bragged about it. This man is an example of the barbarians at the gate. /Pol/ found his information fairly quickly, and while many people reportedly filed police reports on behalf of the victims, others allegedly notified local biker gangs. Biker gangs have always been barbaric (many times they embrace the moniker) and they could be described as “modern” citizen-barbarians. Your average person may cheer for the biker gang to dish out extrajudicial justice, but I suspect they’re ignorant of the dangerous nature of outlaw motorcycle clubs. This cry for justice, even vigilantism, is inevitable in a world where the State, maintaining a monopoly on violence and judicial arbitration, does little to protect its citizenry from violence and hardship. In other words, we no longer live in a civilized nation, and this decline leads to a transformation from anarcho-tyranny to new age barbarism.

Another recent case is the man that killed a convicted child predator. The vigilante posted on a local Facebook page that he had done so after conducting his own investigation of the neighborhood. The pedophile in question, a man that looked every bit as creepy as one would imagine, had only received two (2) years of punishment for his crimes against children. When the vigilante drove by the neighborhood, he allegedly saw the child predator “pretending” to wash his vehicle, meanwhile he was leering at children playing. The pedophile also had a play set in his backyard, presumably to lure children. In a sane world, the punishment for sexual child abuse would be capital punishment (if found guilty by a court of law). The vigilante had worked many years of his life with abused children and couldn’t stomach the idea of a child predator preparing to hurt more. In this situation, the State failed to provide protective measures in place for its charges and a citizen-barbarian corrected the omission.

Vigilantism is a natural activity in a hyper-tribalized world. Some tribes are more inclusive than others, others are much more exclusive. Some tribes have instinctive membership requirements based on their collective ethics, religion, and ethnicity. When these various tribes engage in vigilante justice, it’s a direct reflection that the State has become derelict in its duties to protect the citizenry equally, or incapable of addressing grievances for a specific tribe. In fact, the State cannot adequately govern a citizenry composed of various and disparate tribes; a one size fits all approach may work well on paper, but it’s a failure with governing a multi-ethnic empire. This is why “Americanism” has been distilled down to salute the troops, the Superbowl, and fast food; a genuine identity, or even a monocultural one, cannot survive multitudes of diverse tribes living within its borders. In addition, it demonstrates that diversity is not a strength. Tribalism negates the myth of diversity’s artificial accolades.

Tribes around the globe, which often evolved into today’s modern nation-states, have their own propositions of justice and solving criminality. Today, our ideas of justice are a warped version of the tribal justice we once had (think the rights of Englishmen versus the current convoluted mess that is the modern judicial system). It is right to consider inner city gangs, drug cartels, and outlaw motorcycle clubs as barbarian tribes and warbands. However, by my estimation, we are witnessing the regular, and typically law-abiding, citizenry move toward this mindset as well. This is why we saw the internet edgelords of /pol/ investigate the barbarian preying on feeble senior citizens; they rightly assumed that the institutional malaise rotting Detroit’s law enforcement apparatus, brought on by tribal leveraging, would not address the problem.

Economic destabilization, petty government tyranny, mass migration, and the American Empire displaying both apathy and animus against Heritage America is driving tribalism and new age barbarism. We, as dissidents and especially as Southerners, have been subjected to this hostility for over a century. We shouldn’t expect things to change now. With the rise of this new barbaric age, we need to prepare; being civilized is only for your own people, all outsiders are barbarians. Tribalism is the future of a culturally fragmented United States.

Stay safe and God bless.