I'll cut out your Gordian knot. In a critical and passionate situation, only an academic will reply in such a cold hearted way. The best way to stop Mike Hearn is to raise our individual voices and say what's on our mind. It's common sense. No need for academia. You tell me how critical infrastructure systems will be affected just for Fukushima, the food chain poisoning, the panic and the response. The powers that be only plan for chaos. That's how they reset their power structure. Any guidance from regulators will be according to the moneyed interests. They plan to divide and conquer thru out the chaos. Their only plan. I say don't give them any lever to lean on.
If you can do things like prevent Sybil attacks and maintain decentralized legders with common sense then why didn't you invent Bitcoin years ago? Academia created Bitcoin. It would not exist without "cold hearted" logic, mathematics, and cryptography.
They would say: "If you a serious, you would do other things than arguing." Then a paid shill from the Bitcoin foundation comes in and adds you should supply code or start you own alt. (Obvious all your code would be rejected because you are no "core dev".)
Satoshi was able to compete with the existing monetary system purely on the strength of his ideas. If yours are so good then why can't you compete with Bitcoin? If you step back and think about it carefully then you'll probably realize that there's nothing really wrong with Bitcoin and you are incredibly worried about vague probabilities.