The great British novelist Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski to Polish parents in Russian-ruled Ukraine, said that words are the biggest enemy of reality. The appeal of “national identity” must not be turned into a collective smokescreen behind which inclusion becomes a disembodied dream coexisting with the communitarianism that is now emerging from its failure.
伟大的英国小说家约瑟夫·康拉德，原名Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski，父母都是波兰人，出生于俄罗斯人统治下的乌克兰。他说语言是现实最大的敌人。对“国家身份”的呼唤绝对不能转变成一种集体的烟幕，在其背后包容变成了一种与现在从其失败中浮现出来的社群主义共存的脱离现实的梦想。