A large volume of potentially correct work that you seek discussion on might do better in the discussion area. I found this one valuable for the term Egalité Irréfléchie, which does have a nice ring to it; but otherwise a bit tedious: Everything between the second paragraph and "I used to wonder..." sounded completely superfluous; the last half sounded painfully belabored on its own points.

The redundancy of the text was balanced by the lightness of the support. Where lukeprog would've added 60 citations to peer-reviewed papers, you merely said "there's plenty of research on this."

I've enjoyed your writing before, but I think this one wasn't quite ready for the main LW posting area.