The associated issue here is the takeover of academia by the midwit class. What you're advocating is the creation of a post-academic class that can act independent of obscene amounts of bureaucratic oversight. Everything in academia has become subjected to the managerial revolution just like every other organization in the West. It's the structure of that revolution that has caused many of the failures we're observing now. It's always in the best interest of a bureaucrat to expand the bureaucracy.

I advocate something similar, but I don't think that we'll be able to implement these ideas until we pass through a civilizational crisis, collapse, and resurgence. My article on the subject is linked here: alwaysthehorizon.substa…