... selling out means accepting the goals and the tactics of the society as your own, as a way of life, when privately you don't agree with that way of life at all. Going along with stuff that you know contributes to the greater dysfunction. Living off the dysfunction. That's selling out.If you share the commercial, "me first" values of this society, survival's hard enough. If you don't survival with your values is a great deal harder, because the society doesn't support any of it. Any of it.
[Michael Ventura]
We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - And the World's Getting Worse, p.207
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The pressure to sell out is such a common and transparent reflection of market discipline, so nearly a capitalist invariable, that it is far more interesting and important to ask how and under what conditions people are inspired to resist it.
Certainly many artists, still hoping to be able to eke out a living by their creative work, have resigned themselves to accommodating the market and therefore know, without ever needing to make a conscious choice about it, that intensely-held radical commitments can only threaten their ability to pay the rent.
[Gene Ray]
Art Schools Burning & Other Songs of Love and War, Chapter II, para. 1-2
Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding.
Proverbs 23:23, The Bible
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