Buy or sell what, might be asked. To we capitalists this would first imply literal commercial merchandise. But I wonder if it refers to ideas, as we may even talk today about selling an idea or buying that idea. If you’re not in the Beast-approved set, you’re an outcast and you’re not wanted either offering your opinions or putting on an appearance like you’re living according to the official system of the age.
You are a thinker, unencumbered, I see. Not rote like most anti-Catholic zealots, stuck on, oh I don’t know, ignorance of all things Catholic, terrified by using reason.