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Jon Ronson
Total Quotes 57
Suddenly, Madness Was Everywhere, And I Was Determined To Learn About The Impact It Had On The Way Society Evolves. I've Always Believed Society To Be A Fundamentally Rational Thing, But What If It Isn't? What If It Is Built On Insanity?
Impact
Insanity
What If
Of Course There Are People Who Would Like To Eat Breakfast Without The Screams Of Toddlers All Around Them, But Those People Should Get Over Themselves And Stop Being Stuck Up And Idiotic.
People
Breakfast
Scream
I Have Thought Sometimes That The Sanest People, The People Who Are Just Very Balanced, Very Happy, Are Probably Lower Achieving Than Other People. My Kind Of Irrationality Happens To Be Fear Or Anxiety.
People
Anxiety
Kind
I'm Not What You'd Call A Fearless Type Of Person.
Fearless
Type
Persons
Nothing Uniquely Bad Has Happened To Me In My Personal Life, But All The Regular Little Bad Things Have Accumulated To Make Me A Neurotic Person. And These Adventures Are My Way Of Trying To Make Sense Of That.
Adventure
Trying
Littles
Most Goat-related Military Activity Is Still Highly Classified.
Military
Goats
Stills
But On The Extremist Side I Didn't Get Any Rejections At All. Everyone Agreed To Talk To Me.
Rejection
Sides
Talk To Me
At First, I Did Stories On People Who Were Maybe Just Eccentric. Omar Was A Natural Progression From That.
People
Stories
Eccentric
Capitalism, Perhaps At Its Most Remorseless, Is A Physical Manifestation Of Psychopathy.
Motivation
Inspiration
Manifestation
Bedlam: An Institution With A History So Fearsome It Gave Its Name To A Synonym For Chaos And Pandemonium.
Names
Chaos
Institutions
It Is Slightly Chilling To Realize There Are Rational, Functional People Up There Employed To Spot, Nurture, And Exploit Those Down Here Among Us Who Are Irrational And Can Barely Cope. If You Want To Know How Stupid You’re Perceived To Be By The People Up There, Count The Unsolicited Junk Mail You Receive. If You Get A Lot, You’re Perceived To Be Alluringly Stupid.
Stupid
People
Junk
Feeling No Remorse Must Be A Blessing When All You Have Are Your Memories
Memories
Blessing
Feelings
Well, I Had Nightmares When I Was Doing The Klan Story All The Time. I Had A Recurring Nightmare Of Basically Being Exposed As A Jew Inside The Klan Compound.
Stories
Nightmare
Compounds
The Laughing Way We Make Damaged People Our Playthings, It's So Dehumanizing.
People
Laughing
Way
My Ideal World Was The Early Days Of Twitter, Where Everyone Was Curious About Each Other And Everyone Saw It As Kind Of A Window Into People's Lives Where We Could Be Compassionate And Curious And Empathetic And We Could Tell Each Other Secrets.
People
Secret
World
Guy Savelli's Role In The War On Terror Began When Half-a-dozen Strangers, Within Days Of One Another, Contacted Him Via E-mail And Telephone In The Winter Of 2003. They Asked Him If He Had The Power To Psychically Kill Goats. Guy Was Bewildered. He Did Not Go Around Publicizing This. Who Were These Men? How Did They Know About The Goats? He Feigned A Casual Tone Of Voice And Said, 'sure I Can.'then He Phoned Special Forces.
War
Winter
Men
Going To Africa. Hope I Don't Get Aids. Just Kidding. I'm White!
White
Aids
Just Kids
I Write Funny Nonfiction Adventure Books About Crazy, Serious Worlds.
Crazy
Book
Adventure
We Want To See Ourselves As Curious And Open-minded And Smart And Understanding Things In Terms Of Context And Nuance, But When Someone Tries To Do That In The Midst Of A Shaming They're Turned On.
Smart
Understanding
Trying
Twitter Wanted To Become A More Egalitarian Justice System, But Instead It Became A Draconian One.
Justice
Wanted
Draconian
My Paranoia Never Ends, But I Haven't Been Paranoid About Being Spied On My Shadowy Forces For Some Time Now.
Paranoia
Ends
Force
Discover The Time Of Day When You Write Best, And Write Then. For Me It's About 7 Am To Noon. For Other People It's Overnight. Try Not To Do Anything Other Than Write Between Those Times.
Writing
People
Trying
Sometimes Labeling Is Only Useful, Like With Ocd. Once You're Labeled You Can Be Treated. On Other Occasions Labeling Leads To Tyranny, Like With Childhood Bipolar Disorder In The U.s.
Childhood
Bipolar
Sometimes
We Have To Understand How The Extremists Got The Way They Are. Without That Kind Of Understanding, We'd Never Really Get To Know Them. I Put In Nothing About Their Childhoods. But What I Have Put In Is Stuff About The Weird Symbiotic Relationship Between Us And Them.
Relationship
Childhood
Understanding
Born: May 10, 1967
Occupation: Journalist
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