Magic is the art of creating false (but funny or beautiful)
cause-and-effect relationships. That's our area of expertise. When we
do it on a stage, the audience is fooled, but only for the moment, only
in the theater. They know they're watching a show. They know it's all
tricks. They do not go home and try to float in the air or catch
bullets in their teeth. [But] When we see scam artists peddling false
cause-and-effect as reality; when we see the tools of theater and
poetry used to victimize the vulnerable; when we sick people submitting
to "medical procedures" that belong in a Three Stooges movie; all this
enrages us.
