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"Barbarian" is mostly used to describe the inferiority of a country or people that are outside of the western world. Used by western and white supremacist to otherize the victims of our own Imperialist interest. It's fitting that the word lives on today with the same use because the Roman empire did the same thing. The people throughout history that are called "Barbarians" are rarely the ones that live on to define their own society.
I'd say we are being significantly more exactly what we have always been. The primary difference is in the aesthetics. And maybe I'm too autistic to understand; but the state live streaming an execution is more about the message and purpose. Fascist are looking very very weak right now. They are trying to portray strength by doing this in a time they are losing popularity and power.
You can go look at the executions of countless innocent Palestinian children with the weapons we send to Israel. Look at the execution of the children in Iran our military triple tapped (attacked the same school 3x to ensure the first responders die as well).
Are you wrong to be upset about this live streamed execution? Fuck no. But, I think some self reflection is in order. We, as Americans, are upset with how this makes us look, and less about why it is bad. Our government has been posting the video executions of fisherman for months.
If anything, we hate this mostly because we want to go back to being able to ignore the executions. But, if the first one happens, before long, it will be as normalized as the bombings we have done on innocent people all over the world for decades.
The German tribes that the Romans invaded weren't peaceful indigenous communities living in harmony with the land.
They were barbarians that destroyed the forests and the nature. The romans too.
That's the type of pseudo history I'm talking about. Thanks. You are summarizing thousands of years, hundreds of tribes, and countless conflicts inside and out as "Barbarians".
The germani tribes were largely farming tribes for most of history. Like, this oversimplified definition is literally the main focus of the first paragraphs of the Wikipedia article. This grouping of "germani" and the false association of them all being historically associated with modern day Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples
You read a comment that I made that was primarily about how history is written, taught, and simplified; how words are used to otherize and simplify people of history. And then you thought "nah, my high school history class said they were all "barbarians"".
Come on mate.