Scampi and I took a walk through the mile-long IU campus today (its eastern edge about 6 blocks from where I live) and I brought my phone along for photos. Most people walking also carry phones. . . but it’s rare for me.

Since “spring is busting out all over” I decided it would be a good time to show off the IU campus from a walker’s perspective. Plus, it turns out:

So I took 45 photos, and will drop a few of them here today, and again tomorrow.

But really, what’s been preoccupying me periodically ever since the covid con, and before that really, having counseled my brilliant inventor son Colin Cudmore (now 60, and for the last 2.5 years paralyzed from waist down, with horrible nerve pain 24/7) NOT to go to college, because it’s likely to disturb, even wall off, his natural intuitive reach. He did go, but for only one semester, and said later that he learned more from interacting with dorm mates than in any class.

Oops. Back to the original point of the above paragraph . . . I have been aware especially since covid, when so much “learning” went suddenly remote, and when so many used the so-called “mandated” “lockdown” to rethink their entire lives, that sooner or later, and probably sooner, college and college campuses are going to lose their function.

Just noticed today: Hampshire College to shut down after fall semester.

So yes, and especially due to the explosive, exponential growth of AI, and its ramifying implications, that time is likely, basically, NOW; now, when we are collectively, atmospherically immersed in volatile FIRE (Neptune, Saturn in Aries) and mental AIR (Pluto in Aquarius). Dreamy, imaginative Neptune (165 years) and primally powerful Pluto (248 years) are both long-cycled planets, so working in the deep unconscious level of everyone alive. Their recent entrances into these signs are just about to be joined by a third outer planet, eruptive Uranus, when it leaves steady, stubborn, security-oriented, slow-moving Taurus to enter quick thinking, airy Gemini, for the next seven years.

Then there’s a post by Elon I found on X this morning, reiterating what he’s been saying for a long time, and proving it with his own protocols for life: basically, each of us is a unique individual, and traditional schooling tries to turn us all into one and the same. Just the layout of a traditional classroom — identical desks in neat rows, horizontal and vertical — speaks volumes!

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From this morning’s walk: early springtime, IU campus, Bloomington IN. Most of the buildings feature famous Indiana limestone.

So, if campus life disappears, what will college campuses be used for and by whom? I can’t help but imagine entire villages occupying each of its magnificent, multistory limestone structures, with gardens all around. But, yeah, that’s just me. See greenacresvillage.org.