All I want, speaking for myself, is to have it put and kept in its proper place as a craft. The Church arbitrated on my souls and science will arbitrate its absence and both are equally bad news. Rather, it should be mastered and transcended. That is the path, in this age, to legitimate and transcendental 'magic', as well as legitimate and coherent science. I can tell what a spider is up to from a distance or I'l be eaten.
Authority has no authority, except by convention.
I'd agree our society tells us to do this but the social being is not the complete being. In summary you simply repeat what you are already convinced of, your privilege as a specialist and as we are all into different things. What you have not done is falsify MY argument, which I prefer to call musing, in my terms or on my ground. I've metaphorised this as adopting a 0 position when yours starts After all the irrationals are already disposed of at position 1, the applied. Calling magic primitive is, if you will allow me the joke, a primitive maneuvre of the well defined.