<story><title>Roberto Saviano: My life under armed guard</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/-sp-roberto-saviano-my-life-under-armed-guard-gomorrah</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pav7en</author><text>Good article. Saviano writes from the heart and avoids platitudes.
He covers most everything when someone does something never done before or does it better:
1. Intimidation, in this case with threats to life.
2. Anger and a sense of irritation from the lay public for shining such a bright light on the problem.
3. Attempts at discrediting the person and hence by extension the person&amp;#x27;s work.&lt;p&gt;And the reward for this is:
The immense loneliness of the person who treads the new path.&lt;p&gt;Hmm, reminds of what PG says (paraphrasing) &amp;quot;the modern age (in the western world) started when the good kids started to keep their candy.&amp;quot; This seems to have missed parts of Italy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Roberto Saviano: My life under armed guard</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/-sp-roberto-saviano-my-life-under-armed-guard-gomorrah</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Red_Tarsius</author><text>Very beautiful piece.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, here in Italy quite a few people (shame on them) think Roberto is &amp;quot;overrated&amp;quot; and the shallow public seems more focused on finding small details to criticize rather than being thankful and focusing on the real problem.</text></comment>