Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity - AOS for Lemmy.World - A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.

I remember a while back seeing someone arguing that people don't care about selling out anymore, that when celebrities sell out and hawk sponsorships, the response is "good for them" instead of backlash. Unfortunately, they're probably right, but it still disgusts me. It seems that everyone has gone all in on the mental illness of unrestrained capitalism. Everyone's always trying to sell you something all the time. Hustle culture has ruined the way people think. Nobody has any scruples or integrity anymore, and its absolutely sickening. Bless Bill Watterson for being one of the last beacons of artistic integrity in the horrifying darkness of our current dystopia.

I really only care when it's hypocritical.

Like, if an actor had broadly talked about being vegetarian ends up doing Jimmy Dean commercials. Like, really?

Or a musician that has talked about doing out for the art lets their songs be used in commercials. That kind of thing

But I can't say it doesn't make me think less of someone to a degree if I know they make plenty of money at their job (acting or whatever) and is just doing it to make *more' I don't have an emotional response, as in "they suck", or like their work less. But I would be less interested in having a conversation with them if I met them

Nah, fuck em. The people selling their souls to be corporate shills are almost universally already wealthy. They don't need the money, yet the fact that they do it anyways tells me everything I need to know about them. They're just money grubbing w-h-o-r-e-s without a shred of integrity. Fuck em.

Having read the article, I gotta say that the final strip was perfection. There have been very few endings so fitting and well executed, in any medium.

Regardless of anything else about Calvin and Hobbes, that sendoff was exactly what the article describes as the artist's goal, imo