A Modest Proposal

I'm going to suggest something crazy... Since I've posted countless essays in which people in English Literature departments moan about what has happened to Lit departments. And since most of them are crying that lit crit needs to return to an engagement with aesthetics and close readings and all of the enriching activities that it has abandoned... Why not show us the way? Instead of writing all these essays about how lit critics need to do X... why not do X? Isn't that more logical?