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  1. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    When you say Jonah seems broken, what do you mean?" Justine said."I think he's broken and that people mistake it for shamelessness," I said. People really were very keen to imagine Jonah as shameless, as lacking in that quality, like he was something not quite human that had adopted human form. I suppose it's no surprise that we feel the need to dehumanize the people we hurt-before, during, or after the hurting occurs.
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  2. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    I suppose he was being rewarded so richly because his messages were inspirational. My talks tend to be more disincentivizing, which, I have noticed, pays less.
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  3. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    Among the Parisians there are a large number of women whose brains are closer in size to those of gorillas than to the most developed male brains. This inferiority is so obvious that no one can contest it for a moment; only its degree is worth discussion. All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason.
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  4. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    Feedback is an engineering principle," Adam's email to me ended. 'And all engineering is devoted to trying to keep the thing you are building stable.
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  5. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    The way we construct consciousness is to tell the story of ourselves to ourselves, the story of who we believe we are. I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the person trying to write his own narrative and society trying to write a different narrative for the person. One story tries to overwrite the other. And so to survive you have to own your story."
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  6. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    All violence {is} a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.
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  7. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    The word forever had been coming up a lot during my two years among the publicly shamed. Jonah and Justine and people like them were being told, 'No. There is no door. There is no way back in. We don't offer any forgiveness.' But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?
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  8. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    If a conscience is living in a world defined by regrets, then yeah, I've got a conscience. My very first thought every morning is what I've done wrong. That
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  9. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    The way we construct consciousness is to tell the story of ourselves to ourselves, the story of who we believe we are. I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the person trying to write his own narrative and society trying to write a different narrative for the person. One story tries to overwrite the other. And so to survive you have to own your story. Or"-Mike looked at me-"you write a third story. You react to the narrative that's been forced upon you." He paused. "You have to find a way to disrespect the other narrative," he said. "If you believe it, it will crush
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  10. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.
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  11. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    with social media we've created a stage for constant artificial high dramas. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.
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  12. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    ...shameworthiness lies in the space between who we are and how we present ourselves to the world
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