What is Barbarism? Montaigne in 1580

Hundreds of years ago Montaigne met Indigenous Brazilians brought to France and concluded the so-called savages were less barbaric than the Europeans burning each other over doctrine.

Today, more than four centuries on, the reflex to call the unfamiliar barbaric hasn’t aged a day. Do you do it?

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