Today, when majority of populace in the west is demanding/calling for more government, more totalitarian control and decision making of bureaucrats over all aspects of their lifes .... (I broadly refer to the government mandates and all these and their tangents: race, etnicity, sex, energy, wages, etc)...from the concluding paragraphs of the article (I to a large degree see how this is a valid summary):
"Ultimately, this must mean that politics denies the rational nature of man. Ultimately, it means that politics is just another form of residual magic in our culture — a belief that somehow things come from nothing; that things may be given to some without first taking them from others; that all the tools of man's survival are his by accident or divine right and not by pure and simple inventiveness and work. "