The second option. Even the way he says it still makes it seem cooler. The 'reformist temper' got us here. People willing to concentrate power in order to eradicate social justice are gonna need to be net with equal strength. He made up the whole utopian idea of human perfectibility, that's more the ubermensch guys and tech weirdos who wanna turn their brains into computers powered by orphan blood so they can pretend that counts as immortality. I'm pretty sure we just want innocentpeople to not be killed and for those of us who do the work to get what's ours. That's quite a far leap from whatever anyone would imagine as perfection. I hope he turns into a bug like poor Franz Kafka and gets eaten by a different bug