If you wanna pay the rent with your music, you're screwed without major label support. So censorship doesn't only work through legal channels. The biggest way it works is through Money, or the lack of it. Deprive the composer of the resources to do the work, and subtract the time, energy, and creativity depleted by working a demanding job forty hours a week, and you begin to understand why pop culture sucks so hard. Which brings me to my final point.
People censor themselves from having new experiences all the time.
I have to tell you, there are only three things that keep me from giving up. Number two, the feeling I get from listening to a finished piece is fabulous, and playing it for my friends, who will generally tell me they like my stuff whether or not they think it's awful, is also a highly satisfying experience. Or perhaps that's the bleakest thing of all. Jamie Lavender writes meaningless electronic music in a variety of styles.