Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
by Nasrudith on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @09:43PM
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Frankly it always struck me as kind of insane that it was considered a bad thing. Especially since the definition of selling out seemed to consist of any and everything while not being successful. Was it some hippie movement vestige or something?
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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
by II2II on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @10:40PM
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As far as I can tell, selling out has always been a subjective thing and has always been directed towards those who turn their back on principles for personal gain. Of course, everyone has a different idea of what those principles are so pretty much everyone who is sucessful gets branded as a sellout by someone. While some of this may be a vestige of the hippie movement, I suspect most of it is not.
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
by pixodaros on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:17PM
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The book "The Rebel Sell" points out that creating businesses and selling products was central to the American counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. The "Whole Earth Catalogue" was not a 'leave a penny, take a penny' dish!