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My name is Kevin Markos, former anchor for Full News Broadcasting. I say former, because an exhaustion—and frustration-fueled emotional on-air meltdown of apocalyptic proportions means my previously dignified reputation and successful career as a highly respected conservative TV news host and commentator lay in smoking, irreparable ruins. Only one person will hire me now, and it's the last person I want to work for—Democratic Senator ShaeLynn Samuels, who's determined to be the next president of the United States. My reluctance isn't because of her, but because of who's working for her.

I knew that most people took one look at the ink and the impossibly big and strong body it covered and decided I was a brawler...a bruiser...a beast. However, I was hardwired to be a thinker, not a fighter - my mind being my greatest weapon and my biggest weakness. I should have chosen to use my brain and talents to be one of the good guys, a hero, a man with dignity and worth. I turned my back on dignity and sold my soul to the highest bidder, deciding to dance with the devil instead.

La dignidad ha sido el concepto filosófico más transformador y revolucionario del siglo XX. Inspira debates (sobre bioética, tecnología o robótica) y aparece en toda clase de contextos morales y jurídicos. Ha dado origen a importantes causas sociales y, ya en nuestro siglo, ha inspirado el movimiento de los indignados, sin que extrañamente éstos sintieran la necesidad de precisar antes, siquiera en esbozo, qué es aquello cuya ausencia encendía su airada protesta.