yep. well said. In the UK, a large proportion of the teaching staff in universities are part-time and under temporary contract [the equivalent of adjuncts] and do not enjoy any kind of economic security and endure a lot of in-job pressure. Conversational and confessional philosophy, as you describe it, and which was good enough for Socrates, is meanwhile migrating to the internet. Hurray! I have certainly had some fun with podcasts, virtual reality fora, blogs - and now steemit looks very promising. Re the rarefied nature of ivory-tower philosophy: this seems to be driven by the publish or die imperative that the current economic and cultural position of the academy is bound to generate. In anycase, infinite regresses of 'metas', seem to be the black-holes of this particular universe. Nevertheless, some vital-for-life issue or other seems to lurk in the fabric of even the most rareified discourse as thought itself is 'haunted by utopia' and enmeshed with suffering. Here on the streets of the internet, it's usefully hard to forget that and perhaps incumbent on us refugees from the academy to keep the 'meatphysics' issues in view, even if we are tempted into 'metaphysics' or even metametaphysics ... followed
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