[AGL] report from the front lines

[Michael Eisenstadt]

On 4/3/2020 11:27 AM, Frances Morey wrote:
> Could this signal the end of bricks 'n' mortar colleges and universities?

The university, a real university, is the library and the profs. 
publishing new findings. The library is useful to the extent that it has 
books and journals not available on the Internet. Nowadays, all journals 
are on the Internet. I would guess that 50% no longer publish in paper 
and ink. That leaves books. Some books new and old are on the Internet, 
some are not. The UT library no longer buys new scholarly/scientific 
books if the book is available on the Internet. As for undergraduate 
students, that is a nasty business. Back when there was film and wet 
darkrooms I went back to UT to take a few courses and use their 
darkrooms. I hadn't realized it when I was in college, but I discovered 
that in the main students were super stressed out. Worse, most 
professors were envious of the students whose future was open, whereas 
those profs. knew how marginal they were professionally speaking and 
that they were too old to have a future. So instead of offering an open 
hand, some profs. had a bad attitude towards students out of resentment.

High rise office buildings?

repurposed

> Could this eliminate the meme of division of work and home?
The meme of division of work and home? That ain't no meme, Frances. You 
can't wait tables from home or work in factories or patrol the streets 
or man the hospitals, or drive the buses - like the song from /Beyond 
the Fringe/

"We are the youth who drive the trucks from dawn to dusk to dawn to dusk 
to dawn!
And we know who you are, you lousy fascistic bastards!"


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