I do sense the necessity for a clear break with respect to certain communities that I've worked with on the journey. Speaking freely, as someone who came into Ph.D. work with a three-year conservatory degree in the field, a decade of work in the art and the industry in New York, and a perfect GRE Verbal, while staying deferential and respectful (I think I was known for that), I could see that mediocre scholarship was being covered by rather extraordinary corruption (I've retained sufficient documents to prove the latter, should the need arise). I could see this much more clearly than the Midwestern college students just setting forth into graduate school, and the reality is that the political corruption means that only the mediocre ones who enthusiastically go along with things are permitted to get jobs in which real work is possible. (Making the de facto condition that only those who refrain from real work, or who aren't capapble of it, secure these posts.) But it is still possible to work, apart from the academy -- the politically disfavored of two generations ago, the Jewish scholars wandering to the West, and folks like Peirce are becoming patron saints. And folks like Maximilian Kolbe (a significant scholar, though that's not really part of the cult's narrative, given the dramatic final act) and some of the German theologians.
But to set that path means a more clear break, and I'm not sure how to make that break more clear. There are certainly people in my position, especially after the last couple of years, who are still committed to the political systems governing the academy.
But as for me and my house, I'm lightin' out for the territories ahead of the rest.