Ian O. Angell and Jonathan Ezer
We are on the cusp of a new social reality. The changes brought on by the
Information Age are as far reaching as those of the Industrial Age. In such
times of profound change, taken-for-granted assumptions from the previous age
are no longer appropriate, and the opportunity surfaces for a society –
previously on the periphery – to emerge. One element of Nietzsche’s
philosophy is the exaltation of the free man, the “New Barbarian”,
who rejects the morality of the herd. We propose that a “New Barbarian”
spirit is alive in India. While the West struggles to understand the information
age using its outmoded ways of thinking, a sub-class in India is defining this
new era. Yet, the future will be contentious. Future conflicts will emerge that
can be conceptualized as a clash between Old and New Barbarians.