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National Geographic series on Global Culture

by RANDALL BURTON

10 August 1999 22:40 UTC


Similar to my July posting about the PBS series on the People's Century....
 
Now its National Geo's turn to reproduce and hold up as the default reality the dominant market culture.  In the August 99 issue of National Geographic you will find a economically-organized and oriented explanation of global culture; complete with more unpaid Coke ads than I have ever seen.
 
More issues on the subject are to follow.
 
I wish to remind people that National Geographic has one of the largest paid circulations in the history of magazine publishing.  And, it is widely used in classrooms and other educational venues.  Thus, it is a conditioning tool of the educational soldiers.
 
Once again I encourage WST folks to review and analyze this propaganda event.  Further, I would hope we can speak with one voice to National Geographic to tell them what USEFUL IDIOTS they are to the power elite (or whatever term you wish to use in lieu of) for not posing the critical questions in a coherent way.
 
What I find worse than the presentation is the level of omission about the reality of globalization; which I shall leave to your imaginations and over-education.
 
Summer is almost over.  Most of you will be back at your struggle to find gameful position in the self-contradictory academic artifice.  Try to do something useful before then, old darlings....

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