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Agamben: The medical religion has unreservedly collected from Christianity the eschatological instance that it had dropped. Capitalism, by secularizing the theological paradigm of salvation, had already eliminated the idea of an end of time, replacing it with a state of permanent crisis, without redemption or end. Krisis is originally a medical concept, which designated in the Hippocratic corpus the moment when the doctor decided whether the patient would survive the disease. Theologians have taken up the term to indicate the Final Judgment which takes place on the last day. If we look at the state of exception we are experiencing, we would say that the medical religion combines the perpetual crisis of capitalism with the Christian idea of an ultimate time, of an eschaton. in cui la decisione estrema è sempre in corso e la fine viene insieme precipitata e dilazionata, nel tentativo incessante di poterla governare, senza però mai risolverla una volta per tutte. È la religione di un mondo che si sente alla fine e tuttavia non è in grado, come il medico ippocratico, di decidere se sopravviverà o morirà.
5) Like capitalism and unlike Christianity, the medical religion does not offer prospects of salvation and redemption. On the contrary, the healing he aims at can only be temporary, since the evil God, the virus, cannot be eliminated once and for all, on the contrary it constantly changes and always takes on new forms, presumably more risky. The epidemic, as the etymology of the term suggests ( demos is in Greek the people as a political body and polemos epidemiosin Homer the name of the civil war) is above all a political concept, which is preparing to become the new terrain of world politics - or non-politics -. Indeed, it is possible that the epidemic we are experiencing is the realization of the world civil war which, according to the most attentive political scientists, has taken the place of the traditional world wars. All nations and peoples are now permanently at war with themselves, because the invisible and elusive enemy with which they are struggling is within us.