I Didn't Think of the Morality or Ethics of Doing This

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i did not think of any kind of, what's the morality or ethics of doing this? Or like a, what is the thing drivinge to do this? Why amino? I just, i didn't think of those things. In that book, by chance, there's a section where i meet my wife,. Like, i had no idea where we'd get married, but i, i meet this woman. And it's kind of an amazing thing now that, i mean, you probably didn't write 500 words about it just by chance, you know. A so stuff like that, i think, i's, like, that's incredible. What a lucky thing to

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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