Not cultivating man entirely, are we talking barbarism here? Or is it barbarianism? Has HDT touched on ideas that Howard would encompass so vividly in the character of Conan? This is the only law of man, the preferable state, and does every/any man still have this within him? Perhaps today’s youth are misguided in the anger they feel, their dramatic reactions, a reaction yes, evolutionarily speaking, to not being able to react in their latent barbarian self. The unknown primal factor no one talks about.
Did Stone Age people worry about such things? Did the Bronze Age? No because they were able to get on as survival was much more important. Man will always feel the need to react, to fight, to be violent, and the trick is to get it under control. We outburst in outrage over insignificant things, traffic, queues, not getting our way, ‘our’ team losing, when really it should be injustice, crime, poverty etc that we rally against. The latent barbarian has been succumbed, lying dormant on the souls of many, too obvious and visible in others.