Tag: Jon Ronson

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relationship

Jon Ronson | relationship

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.

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health

Jon Ronson | health

There’s definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it’s rewarded.

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failure

Jon Ronson | failure

Success is always less funny than failure.

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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Quote from Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

There is no evidence that we’ve been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

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