meni,
in regard to ASIC mining, it is not similar to the 'jump' between GPU mining and CPU mining. both a video card and a CPU are not specific task hardware, and they allow low entry level to the mining arena. people could mine on their existing hardware, this has changed.
but i agree we should not focus on preventing change... it is futile and counterproductive.

the post is not talking about boycotting ASIC miners, only on retrieving the power to 'vote',
i actually brought up the term 'economic majority' which was attributed to you, and i am trying to think how to apply it in the future of the protocol when the set block reward will not be as significant as the transaction fee.