Posted on 03/19/2015 11:51:02 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
For me, I started getting the NG as a ten year old in 1964. What a treat it was to get it in the mail each month.
I read every word, and learned so much.
Now, it is just is leftist propaganda.
It is an embarrassing shell of what it once was.
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They will become especially emboldened when they think that robot technology has advanced to the point where it can enable them to live a life of ease on a pristine planet.
Tom Clancy's novel "Rainbow Six" was about such people deciding to kill off most of the human race.
They were too liberal in the 1960s.
Me too. Haven’t bothered with that pretentious rag in decades. But if I ever want to know what a leftist enviro-wacko is thinking, I’ll go grab a NG and find out.
This bizarre pantheistic mysticism somehow doesn't seem to jibe with eighteenth century European rationalism nineteenth century European materialism. I wonder sometimes if these people really do believe that the world is random and meaningless.
yeah - I stopped reading about 12 years ago because of it. sigh a real loss from my child hood.
Another institution infiltrated and co-opted by leftist ideologues, destroying it in their attempts to use it to advance their agenda.
I’m wary. It could be another 1/20/13.
NG turned into crap about 72, canceled my subscription in 75.
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