Comment by seec

Yeah, the gatekeepers just want their political power, and that's it. Also, education/academia is a big industry nowadays; it feeds many people who have a big incentive to perpetuate the broken system.

We are just back to the universities under the religious control system that we had before the Enlightenment. Any change would require separating academia from political government power.

Academia is just the propaganda machine for the government, just like the church was the tool for justifying god-gifted powers to kings.