The sudden, wild, hysterical pulse of optimism felt by one who realizes his hopes begins to melt away

Every person who is attentive to reality, experienced and with common sense knows this no amount of burning desire can lead to good decisions. Only messianic spirits—in that unique and unstoppable combination of cunning, naivety, and paranoia—believe otherwise.

I am trying to outline this temperament.

The Messianic temperament is hostile to a reality that it despises or strongly condemns, in part or in whole. The emotions that govern the messianic temperament are anger and impatience. A person with a messianic temperament needs outrage both to mobilize and to it he mobilizes: through anger and impatience, he maintains his refusal to accept reality. This refusal justifies and manifests as responsibility for something that No can come in terms of this reality, but which, no more, no less, should come. That he must come despite realityit doesn’t bother him at all because he refuses pressed distinguish between illusions and hopes. The only difference that matters is between perfect and imperfect. Note that the latter distinction is itself a product of abandoning the first distinction (between illusions and hopes). In particular, it is about refusal to distinguishbetween what can be done in this world (political, moral, existential, relational) and what not precisely in order to be able to justify the urgency of the action. The spring of its action, therefore, is as follows refusalardent to distance oneself from the impossible.

In public, a person with a messianic temperament manifests himself through the need to expose imperfection; on an intimate level, however, imperfection perceived it is painful, always in direct proportion to his existential insecurity.

Also publicly, he sincerely demonstrates his desire to lead others to the port (another reality), which he explains undeniable security and ease with which a man of messianic temperament asks the crowd to believe him and follow him; however, on an intimate level, since the proposition offered seems to him irrefutable, and some, however, refuse it, the Messianic is oppressed by hostile feelings. Therefore, he takes revenge on skeptics in the name of holy anger and no less holy pride. He takes revenge as best he can: either with personal attacks or by glorifying his own group of subjects (in his opinion, this is tantamount to cursing the non-subjects).

For him, the path to perfection involves two things: vindictive disruption (terrible over-stakes, lack of dialogue) and maximization desperate message (annoyance phrased excessively and very often, by no means “gradual branding”). I used the word “desperation”. Why

A person with a messianic attitude is usually perceived as a “positive” person, an incurable optimist. optimism excessive however, it is itself a subspecies of despair. After all, all idealism is a tacit invitation to despair; unless he is actually fueled by it. In the particular case of the messianic sense of urgency to overthrow the present reality and establish truth of reality presented to their chosen ones, all the more, the more important is the feeling of personal inadequacy. An anonymous life would kill messianism. He would kill, the Messianic believes, others who would thus not have access to his message, so he does not hesitate: he breaks free from the clutches of despair, rushing energetically to the defense of others, that they may live.

His paroxysmal enthusiasm is perceived by many as contagious and invigorating. His charisma lies precisely in the fact that he is completely open to the irrational, and his voice pulses with mystery. He fearlessly proclaims his spiritual kinship from the rooftops. He often proclaims himself the founder of trends and concepts, but in reality he wants to be the founder mythsstories impossible andfinal.

I reiterate (before some readers conclude that the Messianic is a paranoid narcissist like any other): what drives the Messianic to battle is fallibility and ambiguity the paths to the adored perfection that this reality makes available to us. In the absence of deified perfection, messianic suffer. He imagines through projection (which he believes to be empathy) that he has discovered the source of suffering all people and takes on a mission refuseon behalf of all, agree to least of all. With him on the front lines, no one is allowed to come to terms with this infected reality.

I have described the messianic temperament for two reasons: the first reason is directly related to my article published in May on this platform about moral clarity. Given what is stated there, I would not recommend associating the messianic temperament exclusive with the political left. Actually, I wouldn’t talk about “left” temperaments at all, especially since the concepts of “right” and “left” have gradually fallen out of order in the last decade; it confuses rather than contributes to political reflection.

“Progressive” positions, on the other hand, are fairly evenly distributed across the political spectrum, only because of overuse the term has come to mean too little. Unless the discussion is strictly political, and we also mean temperamental inclinations, I think “progressive” might be sometimes replaced by “Messianic”.

What are the advantages of the term “messianic”: 1. it is not only about political investments of the new, but about investments personnel (affective, spiritual, existential) in a pure reality that is not reduced to political stakes (these can be intimate stakes, as Messianics believe, among other things, in ideal relationships); 2. involves attitudes and behaviors specific to a person who not onlyNo he may attach himself to an impure reality (because then we would simply call him alienated), but to a person who he cannot livewithout convincing others that attachment to impure reality is evil and therefore unforgivable; 3. unlike the term “progressive”, the term “messianic” emphasizes novelty less and more agent that imposes novelty. Messianic novelty is, I repeat, not political in the narrow sense, but a world perspective with all that this “worldview” entails. Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro