In his 1898 poem “Waiting for the Barbarians”, the Greek poet CP Cavafy describes a polity that invents or exaggerates mysterious foreign threats to prop up its decaying power structures. The listless ruling elites, hollow public ceremonies and pervasive forebodings of doom depicted in Cavafy’s masterwork should serve in 2016 as a wake-up call for Europe.
在1898年發表的《等待野蠻人》(Waiting for the Barbarians)一詩中,希臘詩人卡瓦菲斯(CP Cavafy)描繪了一種政體,這種政體通過虛構或誇大神祕的外部威脅來支撐其日益腐朽的權力結構。卡瓦菲斯名作中刻畫的那些無精打采的統治精英、空洞的公共儀式以及無處不在的末日先兆,應當對2016年的歐洲起到警示作用。
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