"The emancipation of man from his state of self-imposed immaturity"?

The “state of self-imposed immaturity,” which Kant deplored and hoped the Enlightenment would cure, has in reality merely been transformed into a new and different, but no less deplorable, form. The bourgeois functionary must absolutely prohibit himself from cultivating any form of sensibility other than a reverence for efficiency. He must deliberately impose upon himself a state of immaturity, particularly in the realm of understanding and refining his passions. This is precisely what allows him to substitute his employer’s and customer’s passions for his own, and thus be effective in his occupation. It is hardly an accident that engineers—who are, simultaneously, among the most highly refined bourgeois functionaries, and among the most highly refined products of the Enlightenment—retain the social and emotional maturity of children throughout their lives.