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Instead, the board “capitulated to Musk’s terms and then failed to prove that those terms were entirely fair,” she said.

At a time when capitulating to the mainstream was regarded as selling out, R.E.M.’s move to a major label stung, as if the band had sloughed off its loyalists for the teeming masses.

“Mexico,” he said, “will have to try to capitulate.”

Alex and the band capitulated, with the proviso that the video would be free of gimmickry.

“It is well within our power to destroy our civilization and our species as well, if we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity,” Carl Sagan once warned us.