Character and Reputation

Dale Carnegie once said "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation." However, this insightful admonition is much easier said than done to the majority of society. In a life where all you can really be is yourself, most find it unappealing.
Throughout life people become bewildered by the flourishing amounts of "society propaganda." Advertisements for stylish clothes, centerfold hair, movie star-white smiles and even how to act if you're "in" can be seen around every streetcorner. Since time began these billboards and TV commercials have had the ablility to lure people in like flies to a bright light. Like the egotistical people who need everything that's new and now, fashion, of course, being their universe. Also, the less confide...