It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
—Isaac Asimov
The homeland (Stasiuk)
The homeland, the myth of the homeland, becomes a fundamental value for those who have nothing else. The nineteenth-century nation-state that was supposed to be the guarantor of all social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and political values becomes instead a substitute for them.
Andrzej Stasiuk, from Fado
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