Saying "No" to Naked Natives??

Word reached the editorial headquarters of Random Moments of Lunacy this morning about the demise of the National Geographic magazine. Yesterday, the magazine laid off their remaining 19 staff writers. They plan to rely on independent contributors to write the magazine's articles until publication ceases sometime next year. 

The National Geographic has been a part of the Disney media empire since 2019. Is National Geographic going out of print to cover the costs of the leftist swill-filled movies that Disney has been producing in the last few years?  Did Disney find some closet conservatives over at National Geographic? Were the National Geo staff writers unable to find primitive tribes with homosexual celebrations or witch doctors practicing "gender affirming" rituals? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. We just don't know, and Disney isn't talking.

When I was in school, National Geographic was in the school library. That's where young boys went to look for pictures of topless women. Kids today have never been to the school library, but it doesn't matter, they don't have books and magazines there anyway. All they have are rows of computers. (Memo to the editorial director: Write rant on Remember Books?)

How many young boys saw their first picture of a woman's bare breasts in the Geographic at the school library? For the culture warriors among you, this was almost assuredly an experience in multi-culturalism as those breasts were usually on BBBOCs. That's Bare Breasted Babes Of Color. Nothing said diversity like National Geographic. 

I have some old National Geographic magazines from the 1920"s and the 1930's in my collection of "stuff for sale". I read them occasionally and then place them in my "Free stuff" box at sales. There is no need to try and sell them. There is nothing harder to sell than a National Geographic magazine. Trust me, I have tried. They just don't sell. 

There was an article in the Geographic back in the early 1930's about a guy who rode a pony from Buenos Aries to Washington DC. It was a great story! I read it at least twice. Then I had trouble giving that issue away at a sale. I worked harder to get someone to take that issue free than I worked at selling "stuff". People don't want to read a magazine!! If it won't appear in front of you with a few keystrokes, no one is interested.

So, what do we take away from all of this? People don't read to learn anymore? Disney doesn't want people to learn about anything other than sexual deviants? Unlike the racist, sexist, colonizing deplorables of the past, liberals are terrified of exploring uncharted territory?  If you guessed "all of the above", you are correct. Our smartphones can tell us everything, why learn anything?

What's my "Readers Digest" view of the demise of National Geographic?  Liberals lie. People really don't want to know anything about other parts of the world. They may learn something that contradicts their Facebook version of the world. 

Goodnight, National Geographic.