A man can not afford to have ideas that could affect the way you earn your bread. If you want to prosper must follow the majority. Otherwise suffer damage to his social position and gains in business-compliance and in our nature. It is a force that few can resist-Only the dead are allowed to tell the truth. His irony was sharp and often bitter and the lines we have proposed are a striking proof. So is this terrible aphorism that we dare to write with hesitation, right on the pages of a newspaper: "There are honest journalists. Only that cost more. " The pessimism of the nineteenth-century American writer Mark Twain, the author of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it is a beneficial boost against the sleepiness of clichés, against the drift of dominant against the banality of existence and comfortable surface against servile adulation for personal interest. Here, in fact, in the passage quoted above that the complaint of conformism, which is shaped head for not having trouble and above all for selfish advantage. I would still leave the word in Twain: "We simply felt, and we confused with thinking. And from this comes a result that we consider a blessing: his name is Public Opinion. It solves everything. Some believe it is the voice of God. " The writer obviously did not know television and the Internet and rages against the press, but if he were here today would update some of his lashes against the current mass communication. There is, in this regard, another phrase of his relentless, but sacrosanct, especially in today's media circus: "There are laws to protect freedom of the press, but none that do anything to protect people from the press." And he continued: "A lie told well is immortal."
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