Posted on 06/29/2023 6:36:24 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
National Geographic is some what of a cerebral publication and, well, look around.
“The only thing they’ve accomplished is for the core culture to go underground...”
They’ve also accomplished putting whatever they take over out of business.
Latest this morning is the new Indiana Jones movie is a flop:
“New Indiana Jones Film Projected To Lose Millions At Box Office”
someone once said the earth will eventually stop spinning on its axis due to the accumulated weight of all the National Geographics piled up all over the world.
I used to collect the map inserts. That knowledge of geography has served me well.
“Some issues were popular with us boys in 1970s elementary school for that reason. Word would get around and we’d all have to check it out.”
And really, what was the harm in that?
The mag turned into a rag decades ago when it became an organ for Climate Apocalypse ideology. Then they went on a crusade to tell us the dinosaurs were really chickens. They’ve been taken over by the Borg and NatGeo has actually been dead for a long time.
This woke Disney has ruined a lot of Americana.
Should have stuck to expeditions.
Yep, that and many others. Even National Review is no longer readable. The models are changing and print magazines are going the way of the dinosaur, same with The nightly 7pm news and their lefty anchors.
LOL, funny you should mention that - one of my relatives was trying to get rid of decades worth of old Nat Geo’s - my mother offered to take them - straight to my house. I told her NOT TO DO THIS. I do not have room and the kids can get whatever info they need for reports off of the Internet - she kept saying the “kids will need those Nag Geo’s.” Nothing would convince her otherwise.
Sure enough, she had the relative load them up in her car and she brought them straight to my house - I would not let her take them out of the trunk, back seat, etc. - and made her take them back to her own home.
She called hospitals, old folk’s homes, doctors’ offices - all over town - she was absolutely shocked NO ONE wanted them.
She ended up tossing them - and it took weeks of filling up her recycle bins.
Agreed!
I remember a puff piece on 49er coach Bill Walsh. He read National Geographic. It showed he had other ‘worldly’ interests outside of the grind of football. He also read Von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. Intellectual stuff. Then there’s the cardigan sweaters he wore during games-you know high class-intellectual imagery. Then I read later on that it was all a facade. His background was total white trash.
Amazing how having a stack National Geographic could encourage an image. It’s like filling an empty bottle of Cabernet with Ripple.
almost every used book store I’ve been to has stacks and stacks of old NG’s. My son used to buy the issues from the period of WW1 as they had battlefield maps, he paid $1 a piece of them.
About that time, or thereabouts. I had been a subscrber since about 1978, andfinally about 2009 pulled the plug. Irs a shame, as the stuff from the 50s 60s & 70s was really good. I still have the old stuff & still read it.
I lived in the city where the NG, Jet, Ebony, and several catalogs were printed and mailed out. When the Unions tried to insert themselves into the workforce there, the radical unionists sabotaged the efficient workings of the printing plant. So around 2001 the printing of the magazines and catalogs was moved overseas after several serious incidents. What was the largest printing plant in the US now sits empty.
I’m just here for the pictures of the naked native tribal women...
I switched to just doing the hidden puzzle in Highlights at the Doctors office.
Then the Left ruined it…
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What haven’t they?
I've been a subscriber since the 60s and National Geographic no longer provides maps or covers the subjects their charter called for. Instead, they are now a liberal, WOKE wanna be, rag.
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