But, for most Europeans, these people are little more than statistics, just as the women and men who have survived the journey remain unidentified and indistinguishable, a threatening anonymous mass. Our society of the spectacle, normally so quick to manufacture an instant celebrity to serve as the “face” of the crisis du jour (anything from swine flu to a truckers’ strike), has not taken an interest in the fate of a single one of the “migrants.”
但是，对大部分欧洲人来说，这些人只不过是统计数字，正如那些在旅途中活下来的男女仍然没有身份，无法辨别，成为危险的匿名群众。我们的外表社会（society of spectacle）常常很快就能为当下危机（不管是猪流感还是卡车司机罢工）制造一张“脸”，却没有兴趣关心“移民”中的一员的命运。