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In any case, simply pulling up the drawbridge, hoisting the “independence” flag, and pouring boiling scorn on the barbarians at the gate isn’t a viable response.

The Padres, on the other hand, are the rebels who won’t surrender, the barbarians at the door trying to steal away their crown.

They don’t trust us barbarians to care about a world that doesn’t look like our own.

The walls of the ivory tower have been breached, regardless of whether one believes it is the barbarians - or liberators - at the gate.

This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians.