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Posted on March 18, 2024 by barbarianadmin

A Barbarian’s Issues with Law Enforcement: Some Understanding

The general public has many misconceptions about law enforcement that are not problems in them selves though they could lead to or exacerbate other problems.

Lack of training

I went through a year long 40hour a week academy. I can tell you that its not a problem of minimum hours of training its the content of the training. I would say that 50% or more of the time i spent in academy was spent on things that don’t matter, and they were stretched out much longer than necessary. While things that do matter and would make cops better were left to the way side. A topic that could be covered in an hour, required 8. This left us sitting on our hands or stuck in lectures that are unnecessarily long taking away time from training that should have had more time dedicated. Or training that is typically reserved for the department inservice trainings is left out of academy completely.

In the age of woke and pronouns this will only get worse. More time will be spent on DEI than on differentiating from medical incidents and driving under the influence. Trainings involving autism and other disabilities. More training time will be taken away from learning the law, and rights more so than it already is, though this might be by design……

I will say that my academy did cover law very well for the state i was in at the time, but I also know that it is not the case in all academies and that time is often taken away from learning the law for other topics. Law class ran almost the entire time of the academy and covered statue law and constitutional law and case law. Though case law only covered those that benefited the cops or threatened them not that benefited the public.

My academy spent a good amount of time on report writing but what that means is that were were trained the formatting and the “buzzwords” to use to cover our asses and the departments ass regardless if the report was 100% accurate to what happens by using those buzzwords. “Through my training and experience” Is a popular one. Time was however taken away from things such as negotiation/crisis intervention (talking down suicidal people).

Dark Humor

People need to understand this because it is not just law enforcement. Anyone that spends the majority of their time in stressful or tragic circumstances will develop a dark sense of humor in order to process it or they will not make it out alive. This applies to cops, soldiers, firefighters, social workers, and Drs. They may be there for the worst day of your life, but this is only the 3rd worst day of a life they have been in today. They may still have 12 more hours of worst days before starting it again tomorrow. You get to process and deal with this day, they have to shake it off move on and go back to work.

Misconceptions that could be problems

Racism

This is not systemic as most would have you believe. Not at the country level or most organizations. They think this because there is info going around that law enforcement started with slave catchers when in reality law enforcement traditions goes back to Europe before the US was even a thing. Racism however can be a problem on an individual level just like in any other profession or industry. The problem is when departments or other officers will cover for bad officers in order to try and avoid looking like Its a department problem, inadvertently creating the department problem they were trying to avoid.

Cops not policing their own areas – This is another popular one that people like to complain about. Cops living in one city and policing another. I get why this happens, and it happens in fire departments too. People don’t want to deal with seeing people they know, shot, killed, robbed, committing suicide, and so on.

There is however an argument to be made that by doing so they do not have any ties to the community and therefore have no incentive to do right by the community.

Thinking everyone is armed

This comes up constantly, and when said out loud it sounds fine. “Cops shouldn’t act like everyone is armed” but you have to when your in a job where you might have to go up against an armed felon even if that likely hood is low.

This is the real world people hurt other people, and in reality its not just cops that should think about other people being armed. Especially when people are getting assaulted for no reason on the streets. Everyone needs to think about it and prepare themselves because one day it might be you in that confrontation.

I would argue that the over reaction comes from people being afraid of weapons and not people holding them. These are the cops you see drawing down on someone who says they have a concealed weapons permit, or a hunter who has a rifle slung. They equate weapon and death instead of looking at the entire situation. This fear is also where you see cops so amped up that they give an order and then shoot the person for complying with the order. This is proven time and time again every time a citizen goes into a police training trying to prove this wrong and ends up “shooting” an unarmed person.

We have now come to the end of limits for my benefit of the doubt and understanding when it comes to law enforcement. Part 3 will start to cover actual misconduct in law enforcement as well as the misunderstanding by the public in the design of the system.

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Posted on March 18, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Barbarian’s issues with law enforcement: An Introduction

My issues with law enforcement are not your typical defund the police activists problems with police, though some might overlap. If nothing else I hope this serves as a realty check for those looking at getting into the profession so that they know what they are signing up for.

Most commentators on law enforcement have had no interaction with or knowledge of police work. Whether they are on the “cops are good and there are only a few bad apples side.” – The people who believe the system works and trust it blindly because they have never had an interaction with it, or work inside it – or they are the people who are running training companies of one kind or another, K9, firearms, etc and they only deal with the “good cops” who by their definition are those that seek out training on their own time.

The same goes for those that blindly talk shit about cops as well. They either have had to many encounters with law enforcement or they sit on the side lines thinking that all violence is wrong and live in the world they think should be and not the one that is. They talk just as much shit about citizens defending themselves as they do about cops.

This is not what I am doing.

Some Background

I grew up in a law enforcement family. I wanted to be part of law enforcement through my entire childhood and young adult life. That was a dream that I in fact accomplished, and then regretted almost immediately. Though a regret that I did not really understand until a few years later as well as the blessing that was me having to leave that dream behind.

Shortly after I made it on to a department I had to resign due to some health issues. A resignation of a dream that I had for the better part of two decades. That resignation became a blessing over the next couple of years, because of events at both that specific department, which I learned was just some in a long list of prior events as well as events on the national level. The years following completely changed my point of view on law enforcement as a whole. Where they used to get the benefit of the doubt now was a complete lack of trust. I used to defend them in debates and now I only defend the individuals I know personally if they deserve it.

Intentions VS Results

I do not want this to be a complete bashing of law enforcement personnel as I do believe that at least some of them do get into the profession with good intentions of protecting their community and helping people. However they could do the same thing by getting a concealed carry permit and going about their every day lives. Looking back I got into it for those reasons, as well looking for some action fighting the bad guys.

I was also looking for a brotherhood. A brotherhood that i was depending on to rebuild my social and support network after moving thousands of miles for the job and ultimately a brotherhood that I did not find and that after talking to many in the profession I now know no longer exists.

Now as we know intentions don’t matter, results do and the road to hell is paved with good intentions. What you think your going to be doing and what you actually will be doing are not always the same thing especially in law enforcement and I like most people learned this the hard way. Only a small percentage actually get to chase the bad guys and handle the true threats to the community, the majority don’t. the majority do more of what looks like harassment than serving the community. This is not entirely their fault but the fault of the justice system as a whole but they are by definition the enforcers for that system.

Strong moral men and families make safe communities, regardless of law enforcement’s existence, and like the founding fathers understood, you also need to protect your community from the state, you cannot do that if you are the enforcer for it.

I don’t know if the profession was always this way or only recently but I know that what people have been saying about law enforcement for decades if it was not true the whole time is becoming true now. That being said I do understand why certain things happen in law enforcement that the general public does not understand, which I will cover in more depth.

I am going to harp on one last point here before we get started. It applies here but is not limited to this topic alone.

Follow Nothing and No One Blindly

If you don’t know them or the incident personally, don’t die on that hill. Doesn’t matter if its cops, celebrities, brands, influencers, or religious institutions. If you don’t have personal experience with it or them never jump in with them 100%

There is only five current or former law enforcement officers that I truly respect, and trust were good when they did the job. I know all but one of them personally and thats the point. One is my father who worked for two different departments and ran an academy. His career culminated in retirement from a gaming regulation agency in the western united states.

One is my step father who retired from two different departments, in two different states. over the course of his life and career he worked special investigations full time swat and air support devision as a pilot.

one is a fellow academy graduate from my class who at the time of this writing had taken over as deputy chief in a sheriffs department in the western united states.

One is my field training officer from the department i was at who i assume is still there or possibly retiring soon I would hope if he hasn’t already. This officer worked as a k9 officer while i was there and was the only officer i have ever seen argue with a person on the call over not infringing on someones rights.

Now the last one is the only one that I don’t know personally, but would not hesitate to meet him. Greg Anderson who chucked his career over doing the right thing during the Pandemic when he released a video calling on his fellow officers at his department and others across the country to make sure that they were doing the right thing, not infringing on the rights of the citizens when following orders. As you can imagine this was not welcomed by the politicians and his superiors and resulted in him loosing his job when he refused to take the video down.

What is Law Enforcement?

Its right there in the name, Law Enforcement. How ever their is a disconnect between what the public thinks that means and their job definition and what they actually do. People have one of two images of law enforcement in their heads, on the side that defends them, they see them as police officers or peace officers. There to protect them and solve their problems, but there is a reason their official title was changed to law enforcement officer.

Then there is the side that has either had run ins with them or that can be objective enough to see them clearly, that they are their to enforce the laws, what ever that law may be, or how right or wrong the law is. This disconnect is why you have the good cop and bad cop arguments, more so then because of dirty cops because that is actually exceedingly rare, at least in the prospective of corruption.

Law enforcement is historically a tool of tyrants, they respond to violence but only that which is unsanctioned by the state. They mainly bring violence upon those who do not comply or obey the regime in charge. They do some things that are good and some of their actions could be seen as good deeds, but a good does not undo a wrong.

I started this article with the intent for it to be one article but consisted of so much that it grew into a multipart series so stay tuned for more to come.

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Posted on February 2, 2024January 29, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Nomad Barbarians

Historically most tribes started out nomadic because they followed their main food source around by the seasons. This was a necessity. Now a days it is not a necessity in the survival sense to be a nomad but it is becoming more and more so in an economic sense.

This is how you might survive the criminal life, but this is also how you survive In the current economic environment. You have to be flexible, and able to pivot and move when opportunities present themselves. Now that doesn’t mean have no attachments, don’t get pets or don’t have relationships but it does mean be strategic about it.

“The things you own end up owning you”

~Tyler Durden

The more shit that you own and the more financial burdens you saddle your self with, the more stuck you will be. If you go out and buy a $800k home you will not be able to up and move if your dream job shows up in another city. There is a reason that people like Grant Cardone recommend not buying a house, but exclusively renting, when you are trying to build your self up. Say you get an offer for your dream job but its two states over. If your stuck in a mortgage for an $800k house, you might not be able to take the job and risk getting stuck with that house if you cant sell it for anything other than a loss.

Digital Nomads

Now lots of people choose the fully nomadic life these days, also called being a digital nomad. The increase in technology in recent years has allowed people to work from anywhere making it possible for people to maintain a steady income and move around the world where ever they might want to go, even if they don’t own their own business.

If that doesn’t sound like it’s for you, don’t worry you don’t have to do that to be successful but you can take some lessons from it regardless. Setting your life or business up even partially as a digital nomad has its benefits. Its teaches you minimalism, how leverages automation to name a couple.

Minimalism

in short teaches you to evaluate whats really important. Both in life and when it comes to personal possessions. Most people not only buy way to much house than they need, since most people less time in their house than they do any where else. But they also fill it with way more stuff than they need. There is a reason that public storage facilities are one of the largest growing industries, at least in the United States.

If you stay within your means, and stick to the necessities, at least most of the time, you will free up more capital for your business pursuits, or investments in order to free your self faster than you would otherwise. This allows you to be lite weight and mobile which allows you to seize opportunities that others cannot.

Leverage Automation

Digital nomads are great at leveraging automation and 3rd party services to facilitate and scale their businesses. This is something that is a necessity for them due to the nomadic nature. However you can use these same techniques to simply streamline and lower the over head of your business. For instance print on demand services for anything from shirts and other merch to full Length books. Or if you want a better turn around time, there are warehouse services that allow you to store your products and they handle the shipping.

You can also hire free lance accountants artists and just about any other service you could possibly need. Working from the other side of this equation and free lancing in a skill that you posses can also be a very lucrative opportunity for you whether you are a nomad or not.

Life is Probabilistic

Nothing in life is certain for better or for worse every event has a certain probability for different outcomes. Every action you take or circumstance that you are in either improves or detracts from the likely hood of those outcomes. This is how you have to evaluate life and your goals. For example…

If your goal is to get rich, and you currently are not rich and you take no actions toward that goal, the likely hood of it happening are practically zero. You can’t completely rule out the chance a billionaire will drop out of thin air and offer to give you his fortune, but that is not the smart money bet. Even if you are a beautiful women, unless you bring other things to the table the chance of that is still practically zero.

Now from this starting point, you can evaluate what options will better your chances of achieving that goal. Does going out drinking every night give you a better chance of becoming rich? How about finding a mentor in business or getting into an entrepreneur class with someone who is already successful? Does only working your 9-5 increase or decrease your chances? How about starting a side hustle as a freelancer while you work that same 9-5?

This way of thinking can and should be applied to your evaluation process of any goal you have whether its financial or business related or romantic or personal goals. The more nomadic you are able to be, the better your probability of being able to seize opportunities. Even if you do not actively move around currently.

Conclusion

You should never rule out any source of information that you can learn from. It may not always apply to your situation but you never know when your situation will change or how you might still be able to apply that information to your current situation to better yourself. Digital nomads are no different. They can offer a breadth of knowledge from business, and automation, to travel tricks and minimalism. Don’t write that off just because you don’t want to live over seas. The same knowledge that could let you run a successful business in the US from a hotel in Dubai can just as easily let you run a business from a rural off grid farm in Montana. If that’s your tribes plan.

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Posted on January 19, 2024January 17, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Dogs – Barbarians and their wolves

Dogs are not only truly loyal, dogs are devoted and love unconditionally, three traits that men seldom receive, at least in adulthood. This loyalty and devotion, is in my opinion why so many veterans returning home to a society that no longer accepts them, with no brotherhood or loyalty and very few in person connections of any kind, find solace in the heart of a dog.

Why are dogs mans best friend? They fill a hole in many a man’s heart.

These days unless your lucky enough to have found yourself as part of a brotherhood, you have beat the odds and built your own, or you found yourself a good wife, A dog very well may be the most loyal living thing that you have in your life. Even if you have, experiencing the unique bond between you and a dog is a quintessential human experience. One just as important as the experience of having a brotherhood. This experience is heightened even more so with a working dog. A partner that shares a purpose with you, both driving toward the same goal. Raised to an even higher degree with a protection dog. For those that have the knowledge and temperament to work with one there is nothing like the experience of bonding with another predator.

That bond can also give you insights into other people around you. Your dog will be able to size up a person and their intentions 100x faster than you can. Trust them. If they are normally well trained and well behaved and they all of a sudden start acting out or being standoffish with a certain person or even aggressive toward them, trust that instinct. That is a person that you should probably be careful around or avoid entirely.

The level of experiences that dogs offer, represent almost a form of spirituality for some people. They offer/require structure, a source of strength, someone to talk to when there is no one, all things that religious and spiritual people have but that those that have been driven away from spirituality might be lacking.

How do you hold up your end in a relationship like that?

Just like you should a human relationship of that caliber. Make sure that you return the favor. Reward that love, that devotion, and that loyalty in kind. Protect them, take care of them, treat them like a brother, like one of your family because thats how they see you. Don’t abandon them, don’t drop them at a shelter when they get old, or inconvenient. Thats not loyalty, and certainly not devotion.

Most old dogs that go to a shelter end up getting euthanized, remember that. Most people don’t go to a shelter looking for an old dog so they will get past over time and time again. All the while wondering what they did wrong to end up there. You are basically killing your dog, in body and in spirit by leaving them there, if you wouldn’t put them down yourself, don’t send them to a shelter when they are old. While there are no kill shelters around they do fill up and often transfer dogs to other facilities that may or may not be kill shelters.

This also happens to younger dogs as shelters get more and more over populated. So if you are not willing to keep and care for that family member then don’t get one from the start. Many people say you wouldn’t abandon your kids so don’t abandon your dogs, but if you take a cursory glance at the internet I am not convinced most people these days wouldn’t abandon their children too if they got to inconvenient so don’t do either unless your going to see it through.

Now when it is your dogs time to go, don’t leave them to face it alone. Grow a pair and stand there with them, no man wants to die alone and scared and neither do or should your dog. They are already going to be stressed being in a strange cold environment the least you could do to repay all they have given you is to stay with them at the end. This is called responsibilities, don’t shrug them off just be cause you can that doesn’t make you a man. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Man up, there is little that is harder to go through than to see the look of confusion, pain, and panic on

the face of your friend when there time has come. It doesn’t matter if its too soon from tragedy or after a long happy life. You have spent a life time building a bond, earning their trust and now they look to you for help and you cant help them. But that doesn’t mean you walk away.

So barbarian you still want your wolf?

Don’t get a dog based only on looks or what breed is popular at the time. That just says your making a status purchase, not looking for a companion. Research breeds, their personality and common traits as well as what they were used for and make sure that they fit in with your lifestyle, family, or needs. If you are looking for a hunting dog you don’t want a chihuahua. If you live in a small apartment a giant breed or high energy breed is not going to work out well. This simple act alone can head off many of the problems listed above.

Once you’ve done that you can start looking for breeders if you are looking for a specific breed. I do, only recommend breeders for people who are looking for a specific breed for a specific working purpose. Protection dogs, hunting dogs, and so on. If you do not have that specific need and are looking for a companion for you or your family, then go to a shelter. In addition don’t shut your self off to adult dogs as well don’t go looking for a puppy only. Not only could it make the learning curve and transition easier for you adult dogs need homes to. They may take a little more time to bond to you after going through what ever landed them there, but when they do it will be bond stronger than any other, If you put in the time.

All that being said, the dog you need or that you are meant to have is the dog that you are going to get. Whether you evaluate a litter and carefully select one, pick one blindly or go to a shelter and let the dog choose you, you will get the one that is meant for you. The dog that you need is usually to teach you a lesson of some kind, usually to teach you patience or how to be loyal.

Care and keeping of your wolf

Nutrition

It is just as important for dogs as it is for you, if you are not willing to put the effort into learning what dogs need then again don’t get one. Most kibble is horrible for dogs If you just buy kibble because its cheap and throw it down in front of your dog. You will either end up having a dog with a shorter life span or one ripe with heath issues just like a human who eats nothing but processed foods. Now there are some much better kibbles out there than others but you have to find them. Little hint, they will not be at the grocery store, and most likely not at any big chain pet stores. I recommend a book called forever dog that explains this topic in depth as well as raw feeding, and the process to finding a good kibble or choosing between kibble and raw.

My family started feeding our dogs a raw diet 8 years ago, and have never seen anything make such a big difference in a dogs quality of life. We currently have dogs on both a raw diet and kibble diet, and some that eat both kibble and raw meat. You will likely get push back from most veterinarians because their entire education was at schools funded by pet food companies like most human medical schools are funded by pharmaceutical companies. Do your own research on how to do it safely for you and correctly for the dog if you go down that road.

Research and understand what a healthy dog looks like. It is called their body condition and there is an easy 9 point scale https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/body-condition-scores to understand what is healthy and what is not. Another helpful tip most dogs today are at unhealthy weights so don’t look to what you see around you as normal, and use it as your guide, unless you belong to a dog club that has healthy dogs. Fat people have fat dogs, if for no other reason than to make them selves feel better about their own bad life decisions. So make sure both you and your dogs are healthy and you’ll both live longer happier lives.

Purpose

Finally your dog needs a purpose in life just like you do. Especially so if you get any working breed dog. If you got a working dog for that purpose then its purpose will be fulfilled most likely as you got them for that reason. The more you can give them that purpose or jobs inline with their breed instincts the better off they will be. Hunting dogs will need to hunt, herding dogs nee to herd, breeds like Belgian Malinoise will need to herd or do protection work, or scent work as well as run 5-10 miles a day, live stock dogs need something to protect, huskies need to be able to run, you get the point.

Conclusion

Barbarians need their wolves, just like they need their tribes. But getting a dog is not something to be taken lightly. It takes time and responsibility, and you have to be the kind of person the dog deserves. People don’t like the comparison that dogs are like children but they are in way more ways than people want to admit. So if you are not going to put in the effort just like anything else that should be done right don’t do it at all. The only thing that irritates me more than seeing unfit unhealthy untrained dogs being dragged around by or dragging around their fat owners is dogs being abused, and allowing your dog to get over weight and unhealthy and not letting him live a life in line with his instincts is just another form of abuse, only a more accepted one by most of society.

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Posted on January 5, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Barbarian Spirituality

I was raised Lutheran but it never felt right for me. I rarely went to church unless back east with my grandparents but even then it felt like it was just missing something for me. Like many society and the system pushed me into a state cynicism toward Christianity specifically but spirituality as whole. This went on for years until recently when I felt a pull back to spirituality. Though not back to the Lutheran church.

Now. The Empire today likes to push you towards no religion or spirituality if it can. This is because it makes it easier to assimilate into the system as one of its cogs, if your not going to grind gears with the other drones over religion. Second only to that it wants you into one the typical religions that doesn’t offer any disruptions to their systems while it deteriorates them into just another marketing demographic to make money off of. Just look at the mega churches these days for an example.

Now if you look in the liberty community or masculinity sphere of social media today your going to get the impression that in order to be a man you need to be christian. But that is not the case, there is no one set path to spirituality, and no one means you are a man and other that you are not. No one knows if one religion is right or wrong until you die. No one can know for sure any other way.

I am not going to go into my specific religion/spiritual practice because really it doesn’t matter its a personal choice and preference. However I do believe every man needs a spiritual practice of some kind in his life. It can give a man someone to talk to when there is no one else, it can give a man confidence, or just some needed reassurance in a very dark and turbulent world.

Now that does not necessarily mean a man needs religion. Those things are two different concepts In my opinion, they do relate to one another, but you can be spiritual without being religious. Religion implies dogmas and a set structure that you must adhere to. Now there is nothing wrong with that, some men need that structure in their life. Its the same reason that some men thrive in environments like the military, university, or prison for that matter. But that also makes you vulnerable to deception and control From those who form and hand down that structure. And lets be fair that is exactly what religions have been for through out time. For good and for bad, they have been control systems, and many evils have been done through the centuries in the name of one religion or the other.

You also need to remember that all regions were made by man. Men had to physically write or transcribe the holy books no matter what the source material came from, and in many cases man edited the holy books. For instance the King James Bible that many people keep as THE Bible. Is called the King James Bible because it is the Bible that King James AUTHORIZED for the peasants to own and read. Now does this mean that he removed or changed info or section of it? no, but It is a red flag that he may have and many religions scholars who have compared the King James to older versions have testified to that fact.

This does not mean that what these holy books teach and talk about is wrong or inaccurate, but the religion it self and the books were made by a human being that is capable of fault and/or corruption, and therefor is a something you need to consider. You only need to look at modern religions themself as proof of that. How many forms of christianity are their? It has changed and split multiple times over the centuries as culture changes and today barely resembles anything I remember it as in my childhood.

What does this all mean?

Find and follow the religion or practice that speaks to you. You will often feel pulled to one or another or one may present it self at the moment you truly need it. Some will require more of you than others and some will make you sacrifice more than others, mentally, spiritually and sometimes physically. If you have no idea where to start, then start with your culture and heritage, but remember to keep an open mind toward other faiths as well.

Has your culture historically followed one practice or another?
How about your family/bloodline specifically?
What are faiths of people you know? It can sometimes help to know people in the faith when you enter it. Start there and see what it turns up.

You want to make sure that your values and code if you have already developed them match or at least mesh with your spiritualities values, or vice versa if you have your spiritual values and are working on your code. Other wise you will always be conflicted and it will hinder you ability to make decisions, and move forward.

If family is important to you then your spiritual practice should emphasis family or at least not hinder it. If your trying to build wealth then your religion shouldn’t always be telling you that money is evil as a couple examples. This could simply be difference between churches of the same faith as well as difference between faiths.

Keep in mind your spiritual practice is meant to better yourself, protect you, bring you a more full life. Not take anything from someone else, so remember these principles when your evaluating spiritual paths or even just deciding between churches or sects, If they go against these principles or require that you violate them against someone else, than you should consider another option.

1 – All people are created equal.

2- All people have individual rights.

3 – All interactions between people should be voluntary

No one has the right….

1 – To harm you.

2- To threaten you,

3- To steal from you.

4- To violate your rights

Nothing says that you cannot give up any of these rights that follow in order to adhere to the faiths code or be part of the organization if you want to but the organization should not call on you to force others to make the same decisions. All should be voluntary.

Everyone has…

1 – The right to liberty – We can do what we want, as long as we do not

violate the rights of others.

2 – The right to self-defense – We can defend ourselves, our property,

and our individual rights,

3- The right to own and carry weapons – So we have the ability to

defend ourselves, our property, and our rights.

4- The right to self-ownership – We own ourselves. No one can claim

even partial ownership over you without violating your rights,

5- The right to free speech – We can communicate our opinions and

ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship.

6- The right to privacy – No one has the right to violate our privacy.

Any law that violates our rights is null and void. Anyone that violates

our rights is a criminal.

As a final note

Always trust your gut if something feels off to you. It could be small it could be big but if something feels wrong then it probably is And you may want to keep some distance. True cults and extremest groups are dangerous and you don’t want to get tied up with them or what they bring with them.

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Posted on December 22, 2023January 5, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Barbarians in Business and career

Just about every piece of career, business and financial advice that you have been given is either wrong or meant for times of more economic stability. The days of being able to support your family on a single income working for someone else are long sense past. Beyond that working for someone else as your sole form of income makes you incredibly vulnerable. It also practically guarantees you will never be able to get your self to a level of freedom where you can enjoy life. So what are you to do? Bend the knee and reserve your self to a below average life? No you be come a barbarian. Step out of the Empires systems and learn to make money for your self.

You’re nothing but a pawn and will remain a pawn until you play

~Mr. Freeman

Many of you reading this already understand that money is not the end goal, freedom is the end goal, money is the tool Used to achieve it. So for those that know that already this will not be news but for those that don’t you also need to understand that you have been lied to and programed for most of your life to think about money in a way that will keep you from achieving much success in acquiring it. So under this, money or wealth it self is not evil though how it is used can be. Money tends to act like a being, it tends to go where it is appreciated and loved and avoids those who misuse, mistreat and generally despise it. So value it, treat it well, and be thankful for it.

Law of abundance

The law of abundance applies to money just like it does anything else. The way money is viewed by the majority of the population is from a place of scarcity. That there is not enough to go around and that it is not acquirable. This is hard to overcome understandably for some when you are living paycheck to paycheck or worse, but if you don’t stop thinking that there is not enough money out there or that you will never be able to get any of it you will make that true. You need to stop thinking about how you have no money, and start thinking “there is so much money out there how do I get some.”

Start small, you have to crawl before you can walk

You need to learn about finances because you were not taught it in school. You need to learn about budgets, taxes,banking, business and so on. No you don’t need to go to college for any of this. College business knowledge is out of date at best or intentionally misleading at worst.

Now this part is where you learn about where and how you have to play the Empire and its governments games. No matter what you will have to interact with the Empire with certain points in life and this is one of them or increase your chances of going to prison.

Personal finances And Tax laws. Without a working knowledge of personal finances and tax laws before you get going your gonna run right into a wall. Its not going to be fun….at least not for most people but too bad. Welcome to doing stuff that is not fun in order to better your life. Learn about budgets, business banking, credit, interest rates, inflation, and the tax code. Many will just say hire a tax person or a financial manager and if you have money already thats an option but if your starting from scratch it is not. Also most people think tax person and go down to H&R block. But those are not tax people they are computer monkeys trained to punch numbers into a tax system. They are not paid enough to learn the tax code and know how to keep as much money in your own pocket as you legally can. No one is going to care more about your money and your taxes then yourself. So learn at least the basics so that you can at least check your tax persons work Until you have enough money to hire a good one

Understand opportunity cost. Learn what it is and always factor it in your decision making. In brief opportunity cost is where you have to calculate the cost of paying for something vs doing it yourself. For instance, lets say its lunch time and you need to eat. I takes you an hour to make a healthy meal for your self. Now lets say you make $60 dollars an hour doing what ever it is you do. If it cost less to buy meal prepped meals or have something delivered than it is better financial decision to pay for the meal and work for the hour it takes to get there. You then come out on top. Where as if you cooked your meal you would loose out on the $60 in income. Now in this instance you have to factor quality and healthiness of the food. Cause if all you can have delivered is fast food or cricket paste and you can make an organic grass fed steak, your probably better off cooking cause it may cost you $60 in lost money but it could make you have less chance of having to live in the medical system in your later years getting treatments for any number of things. Opportunity cost applies to any task in a business. Pay roll, packing, shipping, manufacturing etc. At some point it will be cheaper to pay someone to do it than it will be for you to do it your self. However at first get used to wearing many hats.

Research, Evaluate and Plan

Start by researching side hustles and current high in demand skills and see where the rabbit hole takes you. Take note of anything that resonates with you along the way. Side hustles that fit your personality, or skills that you already have, stuff like that.

Once you have done your research and started your foundation of knowledge you need to start evaluating. Use these to get you started.

What skills do you have? Are any of them marketable?
Do you have any hobbies? Can any of them be monetized?
What is your financial status? Whats your income and expenses?
Can you expenses be reduced? Do you have money saved?

Once you’ve done a good evaluation, you can start laying out your plan. start with what skills you have that are marketable that you could do freelance or what side hustles you would want to try. Don’t worry about narrowing it down to one, some may not work out or you might not find it as enjoyable than you thought. Once you have a game plan don’t tell anyone. Unless its a mentor that is helping you out, or a member of your family (by the Modern Barbarian definition). You have to be careful who you tell because at best most people wont understand your ambition or your goals and dreams and at worst they will discourage you or actively try and sabotage you. Even and in most case more likely you relatives.

Don’t feel guilty about blowing off clubs or parties to work on your goals, take care of your future self before Giving into your current self or acquaintances Your real friends and family will encourage you not try to drag you back down.

Now for a not strictly business related aspect but important to your financial future none the less. Marry well. This doesn’t mean marry rich, or even marry successful. It does mean find a spouse who understands you, has similar values, and is supportive. Someone who understand finances and that you are trying to sacrifice now for a better future. Some one who brings you peace and not more chaos. It is hard save money and build a business if your spouse wants to go out to dinner every night, or is constantly buying stuff. Now also make sure that you also return the favor When ever you can. This will make the long hours and tired days all the more bearable. If you cant find that right now don’t worry about it. Remember abundance, there is always another girl You will find the right one eventually.

Your Network

Your network is your net worth, A group of 5 disciplined men will out perform 100 undisciplined ones.

Now even those that don’t see networking as above, don’t know how to do it effectively. They think its going to a conference and throwing business cards at people or accumulating friends on linked in or facebook. But networks are not measured by their size but their quality and their connections. You have to actually make connections, spend time with people get to know each other. Business relationships are no different than any other relationships. This is where the true benefit of ivy league… we will call it “education” lies. Its not in the teachers or the knowledge because all the knowledge is out there in books and online As well as better more up to date information. No the true benefit and it could be argued the only benefit is the people that you gain access to.

The average person does not understand networking So trying to network with the average person will yield no results. First off those who don’t understand network or take the time or put in the effort to network say things like “He only got the job because he knows someone.” Well thats the point. It is a safer bet for anyone to do business/ hire someone that they know and have experience with than it is to gamble and someone they don’t no matter what their resume looks like. If they know the person and know that they will do the job then its higher reward to lower risk than hiring someone they don’t know who might do the job.

This is common sense and how the world works. Only recently has building human relations ships that benefit both parties become a bad thing.

Stop being lazy and bitching about it and start putting in the work and doing it.

Multiple stream of incomes

The more streams you have the better off you will be because if one fails then you have backups.

Start with what you have, your current skills or hobbies that you can monetize or free lance, you should know this from your planing phase.

If you already have some money you can look at buying or investing in already running businesses or business with some start up costs Like vending machines or ATMs stuff like that.

If you are starting from scratch and have no skills you can do what I did to start and am still doing, flipping. You can start at home with extra and unused items that can also help you adopt a more minimization or intentional life style by shedding the extra “weight”. It also allows you to work on skills that will help you every where else. Writing the ads and postings requires – sales techniques and copy writing, Making the sale may require negotiation skills etc.

Once you run out of stuff around the house you can cruise the free sections of craigslist or facebook looking for stuff that has value. Some people even turn flipping into their full time job by starting free junk collection companies. They collect the “junk” or stuff that people want gone and refurbish it and sell it.

You can flip to build capital for other ventures or simply while work on learning other skills that you can do freelance. I starting flipping to build capital to start day trading But that is not a skill for most people as a tarting point it takes a lot of time discipline and emotional control and ability to take risk. If you are not that person yet or at the level you can take some risk don’t start down that path.

Investing, asset accumulation

Once you have multiple income streams or your finances have improved in general you can start looking at investing long term, and in addition larger money generating assets Such as turn key business like car washes and laundry mats or real estate rentals etc.

Everyone is starting to see what inflation is doing so Once you start generating enough income you also want to look at hedge against inflation. These are assets that don’t typically loose value. The main stay for this through out history has been precious metals. Gold and silver being the obvious and most easily done. Bitcoin and crypto currencies are also entering into this realm but that is not my area of expertise. I wouldn’t personally hold them as inflation hedges but i have seen them work great for others in investing and trading But i have no personal experience in that matter. For precious metals you have to decide if you want to personally hold physical metals or certificates for metals on deposit. They have their pros and cons as does everything but in short. Deposited gold, or gold on trading exchanges lets you benefit from the gold but not have to secure it your self. While holding it physically means it is actually yours And you control it however you cannot hold/own physical gold in a retirement account from what i understand it has to be kept a gold depository for regulatory reasons.

Now If you have a decent paying job and it fulfills you and you enjoy it, then you are lucky most don’t have that. Nothing says that you have to leave that job to do any of this. In fact you probably shouldn’t. As long as you don’t want to jump off a bridge every time you go to work then why give up another stream of income. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t develop other businesses, assets, and investments on the side. Because one day you might get laid off, or they may make you try to do something you don’t want to do, or try to make you compromise your principles for the job. When this happens you want to be able to say Fuck You! and be able to walk away. If you don’t have anything else built than you cant do this. See this clip from the gambler for more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamC7-Pt8N0

The career path

I would argue the time of careers is over and done with. The time where you can enter at the bottom and work your way up and be groomed for the top doesn’t happen anymore out side of family businesses. But if you want to go the employee route or need to in the short term here is some things that can help you as well as benefit you in your side ventures as well.

General skills

Learn project management, Everything is a project. This another skill that has a lot of information on the internet and when you have the spare change Consider investing in certification, this is a wildly applicable skill that any employer will benefit from.
Learn to compartmentalize, even at a job you love some things wont be fun, work is work some times but you have to be able to do it. Don’t let your shit work day effect your time with you family keep it separate at least until an appropriate time you can decompress and talk with the spouse or have a drink with the boys what ever your process may be.
Learn to set boundaries with your employer, Generally speaking unless your working for a small business or a family run business, they probably don’t see you as anything more than a number. If you not in an on call job like an ER nurse or Fire department, don’t work when your not on the clock. Salary pay has some gray area here but if its not specifically mentions in the job requirements do your best not to work unless you are at work. 1 you will work your self to death or to your death bed and wonder where your life went, and 2 you devalue your worth when you do. For instance
Your paid 100k year. Thats 1900 a week before taxes, and for a 40hr week that is 48 dollars an hour. But if you are constantly working an extra 2 hours a week at home, even if its just checking email, not only is that 2 hours away from your family or working on your own goals that translates to an extra 10 hours a week which drops your hourly rate to 38 dollars and hour. Your doing 25% more work for the same amount of pay.
This is the part people find hard when they are trying to climb the ladder. You want to do more to show initiative but many managers and bosses will take advantage of that so make sure you are making progress and if you are not walk away.
If you want to climb the ladder, do your best not to get trapped in specialist roles like legal, or HR. It will limit your promotional abilities to a certain level. Hard to go past Head of HR if all you can do is HR. Get as much varied experience as you can even if you are necessarily getting paid for it. You never know what you’ll need to get promoted one day or if your love of what your doing now will one day run out And you want to change things up. It will stuck starting from scratch if you didn’t branch out earlier.
Gain international experience, depending on what you want to do this may not be available or necessary but if the option presents it self and you have the ability jump on it.
If your job doesn’t offer the ability to branch out at all or gain additional experience you may consider looking for new jobs or volunteering with other organizations.

General warnings

Job titles are a trap, those titles or jobs that they represent may mean nothing in 10 years or even two. Experience is more important, “Launching an e-commerce store” or managing a team of 30 employees is vastly more impressive than “Head CD Technician”
- Don’t sacrifice your mental and physical health for a job.
  
  This means more than “do not be fat, but it also means that too. People who are overweight are paid less than those who aren’t… As for a wider definition of health, the evidence that regular physical activity improves mental and emotional performance is overwhelming. Additionally, Americans make up only 5 percent of the planets population but consume more than half of all pharmaceuticals. This rises to 80 percent when it comes to prescription painkillers. Be healthy so you do not need to be stoned at work. That alone will leapfrog you over most of the competition.
  ~Gordon White
Don’t complain about your boss to anyone, and don’t participate in office politics but understand what is going on. Don’t burn bridges unnecessarily by gossiping with everyone stay neutral until you have no other choice. If you want to complain about people, or If you need to talk about them, do it to your spouse or a therapist.

Conclusion – Finding balance

As you probably noticed some of the advice somewhat contradicts it self and thats because that is life. You have to figure out your priorities and what is important. Are you young and have no family? You can put in the extra hours If you want. Do you want to climb the ladder at a job instead of going your own thats fine then you have to play the game. Do you want to build your own empire? Then your gonna have to put in the extra hours and work, this might mean you miss out on some family events once in a while, at least at first. This is why the Empires pushes for you to waist your younger years partying And plunging your self into student debt. It wastes your younger years, when you have the energy, opportunity, and the ability to put in those extra hours, gain that experience and build the foundations for those empires. Before you do have families, and other responsibilities that you then have to juggle.

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Posted on December 15, 2023December 11, 2023 by barbarianadmin

Beneficial Violence and Warrior Culture

It’s hard to put into words the almost sacredness of violence. I often felt out of place growing up in a society that did not have a warrior culture. Most societies these days not only disregard both but actively try to suppress it within its people.

Violence

A lot of people like to think they are “non-violent” or claim to “abhor” violence, and violence is viewed negatively by the general population, but like many things violence is simply a tool. It can be used for good reason or for bad ones.

The more self-righteous individuals like to think they have risen above the violent cultures of their ancestors, while spouting “violence isn’t the answer” or “violence doesn’t solve anything.” They’re wrong, While violence may not be “THE” only answer for some situations it sure is AN answer in all situations. Is it the best or most advisable? Not always but it is always a possible answer and violence does solve a lot of problems, just not always in the most desirable or legal or ethical way.

Many fail to differentiate between justified and unjustified violence all the while everyone of them relies on violence, every day they just outsource it to a third party, typically the government but also some private organizations. See you have to understand that a rule or law not backed by the threat of violence is merely a suggestion.

“If every man lays down his arms and refuses to pick them up, the first man to pick them up can do whatever he wants. Peace can only be maintained without violence so long as everyone sticks to the bargain, and to maintain peace every single person in every successive generation — even after war is long forgotten — must continue to agree to remain peaceful. Forever and ever. No delinquent or upstart may ever ask, “Or Else What?,” because in a truly non-violent society, the best available answer is “Or else we won’t think you’re a very nice person and we’re not going to share with you.” Our troublemaker is free to reply, “I don’t care. I’ll take what I want.” Violence is the final answer to the question, “Or else what?”.”

~Jack Donovan

States and governments rely on men ready to do violence upon any who break their rules. Every regulation, law or legal requirement have penalties if broken or ignored. Escalating until they are abided by or ultimately resulting In seizure of property, imprisonment or death. All carried out by armed personnel who are willing to commit violence on the governments behalf.

Anytime that someone stands up demanding a new law, or harsher punishment they are requesting the state exorcise violence on behalf of a cause that they agree with. Even its for drunk driving, or owning a certain breed of dog or new laws to save the trees. They are demanding the state force you to live how they think you should and ultimate take your property or kill you if you don’t bend the knee and agree to it.

People can only believe they live in a non–violent society, because they are lazy. They don’t want to have to think about their own safety or are to weak and don’t want to change that in order to protect themselves so they beg the state to do it for them. In turn giving up much of their own power from their day to day lives. The Empire’s society relies on proxy violence by their states personnel to the extent that the average person can stumble through life without having to realize or think about the threats around them or how dangerous the real world is. When a threat presents itself or at that rate even an inconvenience or disagreement presents self the average person simply calls a number and an armed individual shows up ready to do violence to sort out the situation.

“Few civilians really take the time to think that what we are essentially doing is paying an armed band protection money to come and do orderly violence on our behalf.”

~Jack Donovan

Weak vs Peaceful

It is only when something happens and calls to the state the for help go unanswered that people begin to realize what the real world looks like and by then its to late. Certain people will loot because they can, and kill because they can and think they’ll get away with it. Dealing with these people and being able to protect yourself then becomes a real concern though by then its to late.

“You should be a monster, everyone says that you should be harmless, virtuous, you shouldn’t do anyone any harm you should sheath your competitive instinct, you don’t want to be too aggressive, you don’t want to be to assertive, you want to take a back seat, and all of that, its like NO. WRONG. You should be an absolute monster and then you should learn how to control it.”

~Jordan Peterson

If you cannot commit acts of violence then you are not peaceful you are weak and you are harmless. When you can both commit violence acts upon other people both mentally and physically but choose not to then and only then are you actually peaceful. This means having the mental strength and your ego in check to the point that you can understand when violence is required and when it is not, when you need to take care of business and when you need to walk away. If you do not have that ability then you are simply at the whim and mercy of those who can.

The benefits of violence

I break violence down into two definitions…

Combat which is life and death. The rapist coming after you in the dark, the armed robber coming into your store a gang committing a home invasion or war. Then there is fighting, which is not life and death. This is fighting sports such as boxing, BJJ, MMA. Physical confrontation with your friends or the boys, brothers fighting etcetera. This is where may of the benefits of violence will show them selves and this is also the violence that is heavily suppressed by the Empire much to the detriment of society, while war specifically Is not suppressed enough.

Fighting is suppressed and punished because the Empire has convinced it citizens that the situations that fall under combat grow out of fighting when that could not be farther from the truth. If more people were exposed to fighting and non life or death violence they would be better men. Fighting can solve problems between brothers and bring them closer together through a shared catharsis. I have had a physical fight of some kind with all of the few friends and brothers I have to this day. Fighting also fosters personal growth. You learn self control and you gain self confidence thats seeps out into all aspects of your life. You learn that violence is as much a law of life as fire is hot, or rocks are hard.

Warrior culture

Growing up with fighting, and beneficial violence is what I look at as warrior culture. Warrior culture used to be a part of life much like brotherhood, those two often have gone hand in hand throughout history. Boys were raised fighting and training and once they became adults took their spot amongst their fathers and brothers as protectors of the clan or tribe. This was a responsibility of all men of the tribe and not just a select few. We don’t have this any more, it has gone away as that responsibility has been ignored, resulting in the world we see around us today.

Now when I say warrior culture many of you will probably start thinking about military or law enforcement. Now while they do have a warrior culture, thats not what I am talking about. Those professions grew out of what I am talking about as populations grew and villages grew to towns and towns to cities etcetera. but these organizations as a whole no longer serve or protect the people, despite that being what we are told. This will be covered in depth in a coming article.

The Empire suppresses warrior culture and promotes victim culture. They reward going on social media and crying about how you were assaulted and punish those who stand up and fight back against their assaulter. Even if ultimately found justified their name and life will have been drug through the mud for 12-18 months or more by the Empires media wing that it wont matter in many ways.

Conclusion

Violence will all ways be with us, in good forms and bad you cannot legislate it away, you can only embrace it and learn to live with it, and like anything else take its benefits and defend against the rest. Learn to use it to protect your self and your tribe from those that would seek to do you harm.

Beneficial violence and warrior culture is only going to come from the tribe level. There and only there you can teach the younger generations how not to be a victim, and recognize threats and true enemies whether they come from over seas or across the street. They will not be taught that any where else, and if you don’t teach them, they will fall victim to the Empire’s propaganda of who their “enemy” is. There is no question as to why the Empire suppresses warrior culture. Warrior cultures raise physically fit, confident, self controlled men. All of which goes against what the Empire wants which is self indulgent, unfit, un healthy, mega consumers.

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Posted on December 5, 2023December 5, 2023 by barbarianadmin

Anarchy and an American Icon

After reading the title of this article then you more than likely read the word anarchy and have images of black masks, Molotov cocktails and burning cars in rolling through your head. You can thank decades of intentional and unintentional misuse of the word by the Empire and its citizens. Now most people equate anarchy with destruction and chaos, instead of the philosophy of voluntary associations and interactions that it actually is. By definition Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy over the individual.

Lets take a look at the points below….

1 – All people are created equal.

2- All people have individual rights.

3 – All interactions between people should be voluntary

No one has the right….

1 – To harm you.

2- To threaten you,

3- To steal from you.

4- To violate your rights

Everyone has…

1 – The right to liberty – We can do what we want, as long as we do not

violate the rights of others.

2 – The right to self-defense – We can defend ourselves, our property,

and our individual rights,

3- The right to own and carry weapons – So we have the ability to

defend ourselves, our property, and our rights.

4- The right to self-ownership – We own ourselves. No one can claim

even partial ownership over you without violating your rights,

5- The right to free speech – We can communicate our opinions and

ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship.

6- The right to privacy – No one has the right to violate our privacy.

Any law that violates our rights is null and void. Anyone that violates

our rights is a criminal.

If any of these resonates with you then congratulations, you believe in the importance of individual rights and your more anarchist than you might think. Both primary political parties disagree with most of these points whether they openly state it or not. At least that it should only apply to certain people mainly them selves, their parties, or the Empires “elites.” The Empire fixates and points to a small percentage of the anarchist in the world that commit violence because anarchists are essentially running on the platform that the Empire’s systems are not only unnecessary but in most cases more harmful than helpful.

Both sides of the political isle like to talk about if founding fathers were alive today they would be on our side, but If you looked at the founding fathers beliefs at the time they would be defined closer to anarchists today than they would democrat or republican. They also just wanted to be left alone to live their lives the way they saw fit. They were very against government especially big government and believed that it will always be a coercive organization whether it was a monarchy, a democracy, or a republic it didn’t matter. That’s is the basis of anarchist thought. You need only look at the articles of confederation and the bill of rights to see that. The articles of confederation for those that don’t know were the original governing documents for the United states government that were far more restrictive on what the federal government could do before the Constitution replaced them. As smart as the founding fathers were they couldn’t even imagine the behemoth conglomerate of corporations governments, private institutions, monopolies and so called “elite” individuals that would become the Empire of Nothing Or the citizens who would willingly sign up for that which the founding fathers feared most for the simple benefit of a little convenience.

Now on to the American Icon

The rattle snake…. nope not the eagle.

The rattle snake has been an American Icon since the American revolution and has been donned by many groups from militias to motorcycle clubs, Law enforcement and military units a like ever since. The rattle snake was even written about by Benjamin Franklin in an originally anonymous letter written to the Pennsylvania Journal on December 27, 1775 which in part read.

I observed on one of the drums belonging to the marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, “Don’t tread on me.” As I know it is the custom to have some device on the arms of every country, I supposed this may have been intended for the arms of America … the ancients considered the serpent as an emblem of wisdom, and in a certain attitude of endless duration – both which circumstances I suppose may have been had in view. Having gained this intelligence, and recollecting that countries are sometimes represented by animals peculiar to them, it occurred to me that the Rattle-Snake is found in no other quarter of the world besides America, and may therefore have been chosen, on that account, to represent her. I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds ’till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her.

Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?

In short snakes have been seen as symbol of wisdom throughout history. Rattle snakes keeps to themself, wants to be left alone but is also dangerous and after good warning is not afraid to defend it self wholeheartedly if tread on.

This should be something that all men aspire to. To live their life as independently and as free as possible. To understand individual rights and not infringe on the rights of others, to be knowledgeable, physically fit and to be able to defend themselves and their tribes if necessary, both physically but perhaps more importantly legally. However strong enough and with enough wisdom to keep their skills reserved only for when they are truly needed.

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Posted on December 2, 2023 by barbarianadmin

What is a Modern Barbarian

Most of the “culture” these days is just marketing, and marketing at large is driven by the Empire. When you look around and look at society and its culture you have to understand that very little of it actually occurred or changed naturally. Human beings typically, are easy to influence and manipulate and because of that society is easy to manipulate and influence, if you have enough money or power. There is usually an agenda behind the shifts and trends in culture and society. Very often this agenda is to make someone alot of money or someone more power. For a crash course in what I am talking about check out this video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIK-q6JoOeU

What is the empire?

The Empire or “The Empire of Nothing” is a term coined by Jack Donovan, who describes it as “a collection of self interested and self perpetuating groups including the banking institutions, military, governments, unions, special interests groups, the entertainment industry, corporations, the media…” and so on.

There is no one head of the Empire, its not one single all encompassing organization. Its a loose alliance between many smaller and larger organizations. These organizations and the people that own and run them all work to further their own and sometimes combined interests and agendas whatever they may be. You only need to look as far as any current hot button topic to see smaller examples of this in action But for the Empire as a whole the agenda typically is to facilitate global trade, aka make a lot of money.

We will cover this in more depth in a future article but for now under stand that the Empire pushes marketing to influence society. Pushing mainly a wildly unhealthy, both mentally and physically, spiritual-less, materialistic, dependent, mass consumer culture for the basic agenda to make money for the Empire. This marketing takes the form of not only ads, but social movements in order to manipulate the culture.

So! What is a barbarian

Historically A barbarian, is a member of a people who are not part of one of the ancient ‘great nations’ such as the Greek or Roman Empires. The designation is usually applied as a generalization based on a popular stereotype such as “they practices witchcraft” or “they eat children”and used in a derogatory manner to promote these mental images in the populace. This was done to make them seem less than human for one of many agendas usually war propaganda despite the fact that generally “barbarians” were just groups of people different from the Empire of the time that didn’t want to join the empire and wanted to be left alone.

In modern times, as boarders seem to become more and more blurred through social media and the hyper connected nature of the internet. Culture doesn’t stop at boarders or governmental boundaries any more. The Empire’s culture and societal norm transcend them, If you doubt this just look at how many people riot in Europe for someone killed by the police in America or why you can find a McDonalds in most even slightly developed countries, or why people all over the world do the same Tik Tok trends. The term is still used to demean anything that goes against the empires culture, used as a synonym, for evil, disgusting, criminal, etcetera. Even if those they describe as barbarians are none of those things thats the image that pops into everyones mind allowing the Empire to justifying guilting its citizen sheep into doing what it wants them to.

With all of that in mind though, the definition of barbarian still holds true, someone out side or not fully integrated into the Empire. Someone who looks around them today and doesn’t like what they see coming from the Empires so-called civilization and decides to go another way and go against Its “culture.” Someone who lives their life as independent of the Empire and its various systems as possible. Someone who lives outside of its culture or ways of thinking. They think for themselves and makes their own decisions on how to live their life.

Now what is a modern barbarian?

Like stated above, someone out side or not fully integrated into the Empire, or its culture.

The Empire wants its citizens unhealthy, and dependent, the modern barbarian strives to live their life as independent of the Empire and its various systems as possible. Taking responsibility for their own life whether thats their health, wealth or safety. Learning to use the aspects of the Empire of Nothing that is beneficial and leaving the rest.

They want them to only trust the media? The barbarian will think for themselves, do their own research and makes their own decisions.

The Empire wants its men alone and separated? The barbarians will build their own brotherhoods of like minded men.

The Empire wants everyone sleeping around promoting promiscuity in both sexes the barbarians choose to build families and marriages.

They know history and embrace tradition instead of letting it be torn down and destroyed. The modern barbarian knows that history is there to teach us not only the good to do but the bad to avoid In the future.

What does this look like in practice?

This could mean switching from a main stream Allopathic MD to a Functional Medicine MD.

It could be stopping eating manufactured food and go back to eating natural and organic foods.

It could be running your own business, starting a side hustle, learning to day trade, anything to create multiple streams of income.

It could be intentional communities where you share the above responsibilities with other people or simply bringing your family friends and brothers together to do the same thing.

It could be all of these things or only some of them. Its up to you, your brotherhood and your tribe And how you want to achieve your freedom and independence.

So what are you going to do stay a citizen sheep of The Empire of Nothing? Or step out into the wild, be free and Become a modern barbarian?

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Choose Your Master – Voting

Lets talk voting, as a rule I hate politics, At best its nothing but corruption and self serving elitists pandering to a populous they know nothing about, hoping they can convince enough of them to keep them in power so they can continue to enrich themselves. However these days not only is it everywhere, both sides supporters are so devoted to it that if you don’t pay attention it might just wind up killing you. It’s like any other threat that you encounter, you cannot just put your head in the sand and hope it goes away you have to pay attention to it.

Typically I avoid talking politics in much depth most of the time mainly because the they have extended the political season to damn near 24/7 365, but also I feel in most cases it’s a waste of time. Both sides are part of the problem and yet only blame the other side. Mindlessly following their political parties talking points and parroting catch phrases leaving them oblivious to the fact that both sides are part of the same organization playing everyone toward the middle.

Few people on either side are open to hearing anything that does not 100% fit their parties platform with the majority wanting their life style forced upon the other side with little to no actual desire for freedom for anyone. However the situation will never change if left unexamined so here we are.

This is not an all encompassing discussion but I wanted to cover a few topics briefly that gets you thinking about the whole situation.

People think it matters who occupies that house, (The White House) It doesn’t, multi national corporations and criminals run the world.

~Raymond Reddington

The system is broken…..or is it.

Even of those that believe in the state, many still say it’s broken and needs to be fixed, but they fail to realize that it is working exactly how it has been built to work. Maybe not how it was intended to be built by the founding fathers but how it has been built none the less.

At best and what it is from the point of view of the citizen is 3 people locked in a room fighting over a gun so the winner can control the other 2. Different groups within the public want control of the government in order to force their way of life on the other groups. At worst and how it is from the point of view of the state, is one organization putting on a facade of division in order to keep the public divided and fighting amongst each other in order to allow them to enrich themselves and their friends and maintain and expand their control of the populace to the highest degree possible.

This is made obvious by a simple little fact that most people don’t realize unless its pointed out to them directly. You don’t get to vote for who you want to, you get to vote for who they let you vote for. The parties put on their primary “elections” in order to pick who will run in the actual elections, but as was learned from the DNC scandal during the Clinton Sanders primary election they are less than straight elections. The parties then use their powers to keep anyone else from running in the main election that is remotely on their side, using any number of means from payoffs to intimidation. This limits your vote to who they put forward, provided you stick to voting one of the two parties.

Its true you could do a write in candidate and vote for anyone you wanted but they are not going to get elected. Though it is an option for those who can’t bring themselves to not vote at all. Or you can vote third party. This is a statement towards refusing to vote for the uni-party of Democrat/Republican but you are still consenting to be ruled, simply by participating. Remember just because you vote for your new master doesn’t make you free. Your vote is saying I believe in the state but that someone else should be running it, but I will accept being ruled by who ever wins because that’s the rules.

Identity politics

A part of this system is identity politics which makes you choose an identity and have to vote exactly how that identity votes or you can’t be part of the identity anymore. Many peoples identity is wrapped up in a political party, and how they vote. To them any deviation from that straight Democrat or Republican ticket is no better than treason. This doesn’t leave much room for independent thought.

For others their identity it wrapped up in a religion, or their race and then those religions or races are supposed to vote for a certain party regardless of their personal beliefs toward the issues or how that party view those beliefs or issues. Pair this with most peoples cognitive bias/desire to not be on the loosing team and many people will pick one of these two options and disregard their own code or beliefs because they don’t want to be on the loosing team.

So where does that leave the free thinkers? Well they have some third parties and independent candidates, but they have less than no chance of winning typically and are constantly berated by the other two parties followers for being traitors, or giving their vote to the other side because they are not voting for their side.

No political system works on a large scale

Human beings have lived in small groups/tribes/warbands etc throughout our entire existence up until only comparatively recently groups with a population of around 150 people. This is called Dunbars number. Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.

Anything larger than this number and you loose connection and the larger the population the less an less connection until there is no connection at all and you have strangers. With no connection there is no trust, and no relationship which is the basis for all community and there by the systems they use to govern.

In a group where you know everyone, you can have a single leader, (king, chief) and there is a likelihood that all will be fine. You can also have democracy and there is little chance that the group will vote to enslave half the population because you know everyone. You can have communism where the tribe owns the property and everyone can share it without issues.

This is all possible because at that level of population, your more likely to all be mostly if not totally aligned on the major issues of your population, and there will typically be swift repercussions if someone try’s to over step their power and authority. Which in most cases they will not do in the first case cause most people won’t cross a group that they feel they belong to, with the obvious exceptions of certain personalities such as narcissists.

Now all those rules go out the window as the population size grows. Once those connections and relationships go out the window so does trust and the unified(ish) thinking of the tribe and then you get split populations and ideologies which is where the political turmoil starts. In these situations where the pitfalls of any political theory comes out.

When you have a large population and half or more have differing beliefs, they will invariably come to a clash at some point. As well those certain personalities we talked about will look for ways to get themselves the most power and benefit for themselves. In this situation with communism you get the soviet union, if you have democracy you get mob rule, with kings or single leaders, you get dictatorships and despots, at least according to half the population or less that don’t agree with his policies.

Now the US for example is too wildly different in almost every aspect from one geographic location to the other to be governed by one central government. Weather, people culture resources etc. the needs, wants, beliefs and ideologies are just to wildly different from area to area for one group or set of rules to understand or be able to account for all of them. Your can’t make everyone happy and the founding fathers knew this which is why the first governing system for the United States was the articles of confederation and not the constitution. It was later changed to the constitution which is what has let the problems grow to what they have today.

Democracy is mob rule

The voting system makes no sense if your in a minority position because none of you positions get put forward. It’s a matter of choosing between the worst kinds of choices that they put in front of you. There is nothing consensual about that as it’s a system of forced consent. By participating you concede to be ruled by whomever comes out on top in the election no matter if you vote for them or not because you are participating in the process, which means you agree with the process.

The smallest minority in any group will always be the individual, we are all unique and despite how much the empire and its systems try to force us into whatever little box or group they want us in, we will remain that way. This means the individual and their rights will always suffer at the hands of the mob, and this is the problem with the popular vote method. This is because any decision that needs to be voted on is decided by majority vote not a unanimous vote. They tell you that it could come down to a single vote, but where did anyone agree to be ruled by a group that wins by one vote. That means that potentially half the country does not agree with the other but has to bow down because for no other reason than they are the minority. This type of justification would not be allowed to be used any where else. How would that play in a rape trial? 2 guys want to have sex with a woman and she doesn’t. But now she has to let it happen because they are the majority vote?

The only way that would be somewhat ethical would be to require an unanimous vote. This means that the whole population agreed. Many would say that this would make it so that nothing would get done. Thats true and in a sense that is part of the point. Unless 100 percent of the population agreed on the vote it wouldn’t pass. Weed? Wouldn’t have to legalize it because it would not have been made illegal in the first place. Abortion? Guns? Freedom of speech? Individual rights would not be in near as much danger, as everyone would have to agree to take them away. Now what about murder? Rape? Kidnapping? Do you think that you could not get a unanimous vote that those should be illegal?

Now with all that being said, those in the US and many other countries are not even true democracies. They are one kind or another of republic. The people vote on representatives that are sent to parliament or congress or whatever the term is in the country in question. They are sent there to represent the people of their jurisdiction and their interests, or so you are lead to believe. Really they take money from corporations, special interest groups, and their wealthy friends, to push their interests when they win so that they can pay to bombard you with propaganda to convince you to vote for them. Then they completely ignore your needs because they are no longer beholden to you, but the corporations and groups they took money from. At least until the next election season.

This is easier than you might think, people have short attention spans and even shorter memories. They fall for the lies and promises made during election season and then forget completely that they promised the same thing last election and did the opposite during their term.

Most people don’t want true freedom, at least not for everyone.

People want to live their lives, but they don’t want other people to live lives that they don’t agree with. Both sides are guilty of this. They cannot comprehend or refuse to comprehend the concept of live and let live. If they don’t like weed, they think no one should use it. If they don’t believe in abortion no one should be able to get them. If they don’t like guns no one should own them, except the state so that they can enforce any of these rules they want to force on other people. They cannot understand or live in a world where people live or want to live different lives than they do and believe that other ways of life should be outlawed and their way of life forced on the other side.

You can pretty much boil down all lobbying of laws to one group wanting to force their way life on someone else. With the exception of corporate lobbying that typically is wanting laws passed forcing people in one way or the other to buy their products. Politicians then use these desires to control and force one groups ways onto the other to drum up votes.

Representation or lack there of.

I want to give credit to legal man from the quash podcast. It was an episode of his show that brought this information to my attention and its eye opening. In 1780 the first year of the United States the total population was around 2.7 million people. As of 2022 that number is estimated at around 333.28 million. The first congress had 65 members and grew to 435 by 1912 where it remained by law from 1941 on with only a short exception prior, when Alaska and Hawaii were ratified as states. The population of the United States in 1910 was roughly 93 million people. So the in the original congress each member represented roughly 41,538 people, In 1941 each member represented 213,793 people and today, each representative represents 766,160 people and each senator 3332800 people. So how much representation does each person actually have in congress? Especially if they are in a minority group for that representatives region? To receive the same level of representation that was given in the early congress, there would need to be over 8000 representatives in the house. Can the representative really listen to his constituents to a degree that will matter?

What does your vote actually do?

The next level of the problem is that the people who you are voting for are not the ones actually in charge anymore. People who are in the government for their entire lives are not voted in they are appointed. And often stay no matter who is in the White House or congress. Did you get a say in the matter of whether or not they stayed or were hired in the first place? Many of these positions for what ever reason never have to be held accountable to congress or anyone else. The President is only there for a max of 8 years. Congressmen can be there longer but could still be gone next election. The people who really hold the power are occasionally appointed and stay for the majority of their life.

A recent example of this is Dr. Fauci. Who was in office for multiple presidents and most of his adult life. Directors of federal agencies and all their underlings, and federal judges and the Supreme court judges are just a few other examples.

Let’s look at some numbers.

According to 2020 stats the Federal, State, and Local governments had a total number of 23.43 million people. 2.87 mil. at the federal level with 1.33 mil. In the military and 19.23 million in the countries different state and local governments. How many did the people vote for?

The President – But not the Vice president as they are a chosen by the President. A 100 senators and 435 house members federally. 50 governors, in some states LT governors are voted on and others they are chosen by the governor so we will just call it 50. (its not gonna skew the numbers) In State Senates in total there is 1943 members with 5415 state house representatives and with roughly 19,495 incorporated cities in the United States you have the mayors.

Now in the majority of the Government and the country Law enforcement leaders are appointed and their staff is then hired with on 46 states electing sherifs by vote for the county level law enforcement and only 39 states elect judges. Only in those states do you have a direct say in law enforcement leadership and there by maybe a say in their policies other wise they are appointed and they are going to do whatever their boss tells them to do.

In total there is 27,438 total elected officials or .00117106% of the government. So the people have only a say in .0012% of the government (rounded) up to ten thousandths of a percent.

Then at the federal level the President appoints or could if he changed up the whole bench 4000 positions with only 1200-1400 of them needing senate approval as a check in balance, and that is just the federal level. Those 4000 positions are then responsible for the policies, hiring of staff and regulation of the agencies and organization they are in charge of that ends up playing a part in your life in one way or another through the regulation and rules that they can and often pass without even your so called representatives input.

So what can you do?

The easy answer for many is don’t vote, and I get it, dissolve the conditioned belief that other men and women who call themselves “government” have the right to rule you, adopt voluntarist principles, and stop engaging with the political system altogether. Build and live your life so that whomever is in office doesn’t matter. Withdraw your vote from the system as a vote of no confidence.

How is “get out and vote harder” the solution for those who think the 2020 election was stolen (never mind the integrity of every election before that)? Do they believe their vote matters? How about those who voted for Hillary in the previous election who think Russia stole the election for Trump?

Even if one side completely controls every single elected position in all levels of government, and replaces every single one of the appointed positions, which will never happen at either circumstance. Do you think they would be able to remove all the entrenched corruption that is there now from all the levels below them? How much cleaning up will the system allow And why would a politician do that for you when he could keep the status quo and reap the benefits.

This could and probably will result in naked power grabs by so called elected officials. These actions will only decrease confidence even further. That’s only the short term. I’m talking about the long game. If American men stop thinking of the government as “us” and start thinking of it as “them” if we stop thinking of ourselves as Americans and start acting for our own our tribes or families interests things could really get interesting.

~Jack Donovan

Your vote isn’t going to fix the system. No one that gets in is going to be able to fix it all even if they could. There is too many organizations that will stone wall until they are back out of office. For those that don’t vote the best thing you can do for your country, for your tribe, and for the future, is to let the system tear itself apart. And be ready to play a role in the rebuilding afterward.

Your cast vote is a consent to being ruled, a statement that you think the system is fixable. When you argue in favor of a candidate you’re telling people that you think that candidates view should be forced on everyone and that they should be the one ruling everyone. That the change of who is in control of the system will fix it and not that the system itself is broken or built that way in the first place.

Local-ist Voting

If you can’t bring yourself to not vote at all, I get it the conditioning is deep. I haven’t been able to bring myself not to vote completely either. So what are your options when nothing you do is going to change the federal level in a substantial way? Vote third party or write in candidates at the federal level to make sure your vote doesn’t go to someone you don’t want it to. And make sure you focus on your local elections and voting.

Just like charity the closer to home your actions the more impact you will be able to see and contribute to. The local elections will have more impact on your local life than a lot of federal elections and you do still have the ability to fight off certain policies locally that can at least in the short term improve your way life in one way or another.

There is the possibility that in the future, certain federal policies can effectively be nullified as well if you have a local government that is on the same page, look at the sanctuary city principle for immigration or gun laws, as well as the states legalizing and decriminalizing different “drugs”. Nullification has already effectively happened on some of these fronts so it is technically possible in others. In addition if the federal level does tear it self apart, having an already established system that you at best don’t have to fight everything on, could hopefully ease the transition pains and stave off any control grabs from other groups.

Conclusion

If you made it this far, congratulations, there is hope for us all yet. Half the battle of making change, is understanding all the dynamics that play a part in the situation at hand. Once understood, you can then play a more active role in helping bring about change for the betterment of everyone. My hope is that I’ve given you enough food for thought to cause you to do your own homework, your own research and work towards making valuable changes and to see the value in small communities (tribes if you will) and the impact they can play in your life.

Lack of training

Dark Humor

Misconceptions that could be problems

Racism

Thinking everyone is armed

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Some Background

Intentions VS Results

Follow Nothing and No One Blindly

What is Law Enforcement?

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Digital Nomads

Minimalism

Leverage Automation

Life is Probabilistic

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Why are dogs mans best friend? They fill a hole in many a man’s heart.

How do you hold up your end in a relationship like that?

So barbarian you still want your wolf?

Care and keeping of your wolf

Nutrition

Purpose

Conclusion

Recommended Reading

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What does this all mean?

No one has the right….

Everyone has…

As a final note

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Law of abundance

Start small, you have to crawl before you can walk

Research, Evaluate and Plan

Your Network

Multiple stream of incomes

Investing, asset accumulation

The career path

General skills

General warnings

Conclusion – Finding balance

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Violence

Weak vs Peaceful

The benefits of violence

Warrior culture

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Lets take a look at the points below….

No one has the right….

Everyone has…

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What is the empire?

So! What is a barbarian

Now what is a modern barbarian?

What does this look like in practice?

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People think it matters who occupies that house, (The White House) It doesn’t, multi national corporations and criminals run the world.

~Raymond Reddington

The system is broken…..or is it.

Identity politics

No political system works on a large scale

Democracy is mob rule

Most people don’t want true freedom, at least not for everyone.

Representation or lack there of.

What does your vote actually do?

Let’s look at some numbers.

So what can you do?

~Jack Donovan

Local-ist Voting