In the end, he's still not sure what messianism really means, W. says. Messianic: that's what he wrote in his Facebook profile under religion. Messianic: he wrote that under politics, too, without understanding what he'd written.
What does it mean to talk about the messianic when neither of us is in the least bit religious? What, to dream of a messianic politics?
It has something to do with the apocalypse, W. says. He’s certain of that. The Messiah, the apocalypse: you can't have one without the other. The Messiah only arrives at the end of times, in the Last Days, W. says. It's only at the end of politics that politics might become messianic. And perhaps we are at the end of politics, W. says. Perhaps politics really is over.
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