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

    I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.
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  2. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.
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  3. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    We were much more frightening than Judge Ted Poe. The powerful, crazy, cruel people I usually write about tend to be in far-off places. The powerful, crazy, cruel people were now us. It felt like we were soldiers making war on other people's flaws, and there had suddenly been an escalation in hostilities.
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  4. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming.
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  5. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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

    You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things.
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  7. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    I favour humans over ideology, but right now the ideologues are winning, and they're creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas, where everyone is either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. We can lead good, ethical lives, but some bad phraseology in a Tweet can overwhelm it all - even though we know that's not how we should define our fellow humans. What's true about our fellow humans is that we are clever and stupid. We are grey areas.And so ... when you see an unfair or an ambiguous shaming unfold, speak up on behalf of the shamed person. A babble of opposing voices - that's democracy.The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people. Let's not turn it into a world where the smartest way to survive is to go back to being voiceless.
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  8. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    I, personally, no longer take part in the ecstatic public condemnation of people unless they've committed a transgression that has an actual victim, and even then not as much as I probably should. I miss the fun a little. But it feels like when I became a vegetarian. I missed the steak, although not as much as I'd anticipated, but I could no longer ignore the slaughterhouse.
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  9. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    {W}e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.
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  10. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    A lot of people move around in life chronically ashamed of how they look, or how they feel, or what they said, or what they did. It's like a permanent adolescent concern. Adolescence is when you're permanently concerned about what other people think of you.
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  11. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles.
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  12. Jon Ronson _ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

    I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be.
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