Becoming a Barbarian won't teach you how to swing a battle axe or crush your enemies (so that you can see them driven before you and then hear the lamentation of their women).
 
Becoming a Barbarian is a follow-up to Donovan's cult hit, The Way of Men. Good, modern, "civilized" Western men today are expected to think like "citizens of the world" - obligated to everyone and no one. Natural, meaningful tribal connections have been substituted with synthetic, disposable consumer identities. Without a sense of who they are and what group they have a place in, modern men are becoming increasingly detached, disoriented, vulnerable, and ever more easily manipulated.

Becoming a Barbarian attacks the emasculated emptiness of life in the modern West - "The Empire of Nothing" -and shows men how to think tribally again. It reveals the weaknesses of universalistic thinking, and challenges readers to become the kind of men who could go "all-in" and devote their lives to one group of people above all others.

Becoming a Barbarian is about finding a tribe, finding a purpose, and choosing to live the kind of life that undermines the narrative of the Empire.

成为野蛮人》不会教你如何挥舞战斧或粉碎你的敌人（以便你能看到他们在你面前被驱赶，然后听到他们女人的悲鸣）。

成为野蛮人》是多诺万的邪典作品《男人之道》的后续作品。今天，优秀的、现代的、"文明的 "西方男人被期望像 "世界公民 "一样思考--对任何人都有义务。自然的、有意义的部落联系已经被合成的、一次性的消费者身份所取代。由于不知道自己是谁，也不知道自己在哪个群体中占有一席之地，现代男性正变得越来越疏离、迷失方向、脆弱，而且越来越容易被操纵。

成为野蛮人》抨击了现代西方生活中的虚无主义--"虚无帝国"--并告诉男人如何重新进行部落思考。它揭示了普遍主义思维的弱点，并挑战读者成为那种可以 "全身心投入 "并将自己的生命奉献给一个群体而不是其他群体的男人。

成为野蛮人》是关于找到一个部落，找到一个目的，并选择过那种破坏帝国叙事的生活。