Back in 2001, just after 9/11, the Economist ran a cover with the headline The Day the World Changed. It felt right at the time. But when historians come to look back at our times I wonder if, vile as it was, that will really be the event they note as the trigger for the western world changing.
回到2001年,當時9/11恐怖襲擊剛剛過去,《經濟學人》(Economist)雜誌刊登了一個封面,標題是「改變世界的一天」(The Day the World Changed)。當時這樣的斷語讓人覺得頗爲貼切。但是,儘管這一事件非常糟糕,當歷史學家們開始回顧我們所處的時代時,我揣測他們會否真的認爲那是引發西方世界改變的事件。
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