Messianism

W. and I are supposed to be thinking about Messianism, but our minds are blank.

What are your thoughts on Messianism?, asks W. I don't have any thoughts on Messianism, I tell him. What about you? W. isn't able to think about Messianism, he says. He's not capable of it, and neither am I.

There are some thoughts that will be forever beyond us, says W., and Messianism is one of those thoughts. How is it that we nevertheless have bent our efforts on thinking about Messianism? It isn't as though we know anything about Messianism, or have any kind of religious belief that would give us any kind of personal investment in Messianism.

What, really, can Messianism mean to us, except as the limit of what it is possible for us to think or write about? Perhaps that's all Messianism could mean to us: the possibility that one day we might be changed so radically that we would be able to think about Messianism, says W.