Thank you for all these thoughts! I've read Rorty and respect his thinking. I've been working on truth units for about 20 years with the purpose of avoiding the pitfalls you mention. If you're interested, please check out the Medium pieces I've already written:

https://medium.com/@alexbennett-ap/truth-units-articles-a762cc68522d

Of these, one of them lists the reading I've done:

https://medium.com/@alexbennett-ap/20-years-of-schoolin-and-they-put-you-on-the-day-shift-bc5e4b815e81

Also, another philosopher published a Medium piece that talks a little bit about the truth units project in the context of his philosophical concerns about society:

https://medium.com/philosophytoday/why-studying-theories-of-truth-is-so-important-58b22bd4fe57

I'd appreciate your critique on any of the above. Like I've said, if I've erred in my thinking, I'd very much like to hear about it, and (sorry if this is too blunt) am a little less interested in hearing about philosophy's historical and present failures, since hopefully I've avoided them.

Best regards, and thanks again!