from my journal

Tuesday, April 14, 2009: We are living in an age of growing barbarism. Not the caricature of uneducated half-brutes crossing the Rhine, but a barbarization of the elites through lethargy of mind.

In their origin farms and towns went together, complimenting each other. This was the origin of the city-state. The "barbarians" were the plunderers of this civilization who thought they could pillage, rape and plunder with abandon having no conception of what right they had to destroy what they had no part in creating. They were intelligent in the arts of war and lazy and slothful in the arts of peace, civilization and law. Ultimately civilization and its advantages tamed the barbarians.

However, barbarism lives in embryo within every civilization: the idea that force and physical power transcend rights and laws. In the words of the modern poly sci professor: :"politics is about POWER!!" The lazy of mind can live within civilization but they seethe and dream of its destruction. These are the Utopians and their ideas so prevalent in today's culture. I know of whom I speak because I am one of these barbarians. Most of these new barbarians are of a certain intellectual elite but not geniuses. They are generally one or two steps below that. They are brilliant but lack creativity and ethical standards that would serve to harness their thought to beauty and right conduct. In their blindness they desire destruction in order that they will gain from this the energy that they lack to build the world they dream of.

What we, the barbarians, cannot conceive is that in our zeal to "change the world" we forget that the world is filled with others, different from ourselves, who will not consent to their worlds being changed. This is why Utopian ideas breed strife and war. They run into the reality of the diversification of human thought and culture that civilization itself has fostered. This is the source of the our hatred of civilization. We dream of a unified Mankind under our tutelage. Civilization diversifies Man and leads to multiple differences that manifest themselves in multiple civilizations.
"One world, no borders" is possible only by the reduction of Man into a barbarous, atavistic, atomistic mass ready to be harnessed to the yoke of despotic tyranny.