Becoming a Barbarian

Becoming a Barbarian

<div><i>Becoming a Barbarian won't teach you how to swing a battle axe or crush your enemies (so that you can see them driven before you and then hear the lamentation of their women).<br />  <span><br />Becoming a Barbarian is a follow-up to Donovan's cult hit, <em>The Way of Men</em>. Good, modern, "civilized" Western men today are expected to think like "citizens of the world" - obligated to everyone and no one. Natural, meaningful tribal connections have been substituted with synthetic, disposable consumer identities. Without a sense of who they are and what group they have a place in, modern men are becoming increasingly detached, disoriented, vulnerable, and ever more easily manipulated.</span><br /><br /><span><em>Becoming a Barbarian</em> attacks the emasculated emptiness of life in the modern West - "The Empire of Nothing" -and shows men how to think tribally again. It reveals the weaknesses of universalistic thinking, and challenges readers to become the kind of men who could go "all-in" and devote their lives to one group of people above all others.<br /><br /><em>Becoming a Barbarian</em></span></i><em> is about finding a tribe, finding a purpose, and choosing to live the kind of life that undermines the narrative of the Empire.</em></div>