Is There a Choice in Selling Out?

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Selling out was an attempt to be appreciated by strangers you had no relationship with. Young people assume that selling out is only about money, he says. "It sometimes feels like in lieu of the selling out culture, there's sort of nothing there in present culture" 'I'm it like describes this reality in which people can either choose to sell out or choose some sort of a true path'

Chuck Klosterman is a journalist and the author of eleven books, including his latest, The Nineties.

”Selling out… was very much injected into the way I understood the world…. And I am now supposed to do all of these interviews and all of these podcasts promoting this book. And because it's a book about the nineties… it feels incredibly uncomfortable to me…. I think young people assume that selling out is only about money: that if you try to do something to make money, that means you're selling out, because the word ‘sell’ is in there. But that's not really how it was. I mean, what you were selling out was this idea of your integrity. And what your integrity was, was somehow not doing anything to make other people like you.”

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