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2022-02-20 -Great Cultural Revolution

National Geographic has become too woke to be taken seriously

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-20 05:13|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 I think it was in their fifth(?) peak oil edition, I dump the rag it had become decades ago.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-20 07:20|| 2022-02-20 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Same here pro. quit it about 20 years ago.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-02-20 09:06|| 2022-02-20 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't get me started on Scientific American. That took the turn for the worse in the 1980's

Posted by Frank G 2022-02-20 09:19|| 2022-02-20 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 There's a reason all those aunts and uncles used to drop off those musty old boxes of NG magazines at your parents' house when you were a kid.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-20 09:25|| 2022-02-20 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Yes, back then they were viewed as too good to throw away. Could provide someone with some knowledge of the world beyond Peoria.

Obviously the rag is used for other purposes today and is worthy of quick disposal.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-20 09:48|| 2022-02-20 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Could provide someone with some knowledge of the world

My first black breast.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-20 10:12|| 2022-02-20 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ "EDEN IN AMAZONIA: Hidden Deep in the Jungle, An Innocent Stone Age Tribe" by SIR REGINALD ROSS-LEMMING

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-20 10:18|| 2022-02-20 10:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Could provide someone with some knowledge of the world

Discovering the difference between a breast and a pap was not an exhilarating moment of realizing "knowledge is power."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-20 10:48|| 2022-02-20 10:48|| Front Page Top

#9 I learned a lot about gravity in those African stories.

Posted by Slappy 2022-02-20 12:46|| 2022-02-20 12:46|| Front Page Top

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