It's about how fighting off the barbarians is the reason for all the other concepts to exist, and the poem questions their validity for that reason. It's a comment about how the fear mongering of politics work. A less poetic and perhaps more relatable rhetoric would be "the immigrants are taking your jobs", and the sort.
Olivia5k
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Definitely this one for me too! I usually remix it somehow, like "You are technically correct, the most celebrated form of correct", or some such.
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