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.
gotta wonder why the aliens would build these rooms (sh.itjust.works)
(this is the first level in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1)
C.P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians" (lemmy.world)
What’s your most used line? (i.imgur.com)
Mine is this and Leela’s “oh lord.” I mean, there are so many, but those two top the charts.