At stake: eu-daimonia, happiness. To traverse the juridico-political and theological model of a theocracy still prevalent today what is most in need of separation is the order of happiness from the order of the messianic. A profane experience of happiness (not conceived psychologically or transcendentally) may lie in the word. Working towards the conception of a profane historical order Walter Benjamin diagnosed as the condition of his time what seems to be still at stake today: the redemption of the mode of transmission of things that are held as ‘sacred heritage’: the hypocrisy of ‘the closed mouth’ as a place of authority, that reigns but does not govern. Redemption here refers not to the saving of the past, but the saving of what never was: the new, our ever infant form of being. Whereas politician-vicars of all kinds wish to consign desire to this or that silent topos, what is most needed as a radical praxis is to recall arguments, ideas and desires, the flesh of things to experience (an experimentum). It is the undecidability between the lived experience and the poietic life that defines the event of experience as taking place in between, in fable. It is in fable where the wild things are. It is not recognition any longer that ‘saves us’, but the realisation that we cannot recognise ourselves in any saviour-sign, let alone return to it.