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I get a vibe as well, though I don't share your theory of it. Older math/CS papers have a more conversational feel to them, and tend to assume that the reader shares a kind of philosophical disposition. Today, research papers often have a very corporate feel, and are bristling with "motivation". But I don't think it's at all difficult to write such papers without referencing race or gender. Many people do it every day, successfully. I'm curious why you think that race and gender have invaded math/CS.

Which part is the "bottleneck"? Is it the idea that at one point nearly all mammals were nocturnal and that it became advantageous for some to transition to diurnal since there was less competition for resources during the day?

Searchable encryption trades privacy for efficiency. However, the privacy loss can be tuned. For example, SE constructions will specify whether they leak search-pattern (how many of the same queries a client makes), access-pattern (the frequencies with which different items are accessed) or other things. Usually, a client can pay in storage/bandwidth to mitigate these leakages.

The thesis of the article is that anarchism is not particularly violent or exotic, but a natural extension of very common moral beliefs and practices. One could argue this is interesting in its own right, given popular depictions of anarchism, but the article goes even further, articulating an anarchistic view of human nature. You can reasonably disagree with this view, as others here have, but to criticize these "talking points" as "generic" seems precisely to miss the point.