Yes, I strongly agree that the professionalization and publish-or-perish imperative have harmed philosophy. Philosophers, whether faulty or students, aren’t free enough to explore ideas. That’s why I left the ivory tower.

I will have to spend more time digesting your thesis on infantilization. I just finished a big writing project (on interpretation of data, ironically) and my mind is foggy. Skimming through, your arguments reminded me of two pieces I have written: https://medium.com/insert-philosophy-here/the-siloization-of-humanity-11c4595f38dc and https://blog.usejournal.com/the-memeocene-memes-and-humanitys-new-epoch-2f72a7cfdcf4. Maybe we are circling around the same social phenomenon.