how could you possibly keep magic a secret? and why would you ever expect to? people would bump against it in a million different ways.

it has lib undertones of like. oh if everyone knew the terrible truth, the government would do something about it. humanity would go to war against the witches or whatever. this kind of makes me laugh. what governments are you aware of? personally i would love to see the trump administration attempt to handle the interview guys and i think it's a failure of the show to not address this in some way

seems to come from a desire to have the fiction universe be functionally identical to the author's ideas of the "real" universe + [magical element]. but that's a very small-scale approach. i read somewhere (no doubt a massive oversimplification) that ghost stories really took off after the civil war because so many people died away from home and their families never received closure, but like ... that's basically everyone in the interview universe. so how would that impact people of various social, political, cultural groups? or maybe it's like, okay, people disappear all the time, so what? get back to work. greasing the wheels of capitalism or whatnot