[AGL] report from the front lines

[Charles Loving]

Really? I know a few truckers out here and they are in their sixties and
they deliver food to the distribution centers.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:04 PM Michael Eisenstadt <
mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Charlie Loving
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