He certainly knows his stuff. It's a bit like when I talk to
The talk was about many things. One of the core ideas was about the difference between progressive and traditional political thought, sometimes called left and right, which either aim at a Utopia in the future or hark back to one from the past.
Magicians have been claimed for both sides. Magic is about imposing your will, politics too. The practice might be different but the desired result is often the same.
The Golden Age that bother pro- and re-gressives aim at is all about a narrowing down of the options, the possibilities, until everyone submits to the same will - preferably the magicians/politicians ("I only want to hear helpful things", TB). It's no wonder that utopia is always fleeting, or that I prefer the liberating of possibilities that is an-archy.