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年发表的《等待野蛮人》(Waiting for the Barbarians)一诗中，希腊诗人卡瓦菲斯(CP Cavafy)描绘了一种政体，这种政体通过虚构或夸大神秘的外部威胁来支撑其日益腐朽的权力结构。卡瓦菲斯名作中刻画的那些无精打采的统治精英、空洞的公共仪式以及无处不在的末日先兆，应当对2016年的欧洲起到警示作用。
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