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" But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. "
Jon Ronson
Talk
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Me
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" 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. "
Jon Ronson
Understanding
Know
Relationship
" I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly. "
Jon Ronson
Only
Step
Say
" 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. "
Jon Ronson
Capitalism
American
Health
" I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. "
Jon Ronson
Me
Going
Like
" My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. "
Jon Ronson
Now
Time
Paranoid
" Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face. "
Jon Ronson
Women
Culture
Racism
" I just don't think I'm very good at fiction. "
Jon Ronson
Fiction
Think
Just
" Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together. "
Jon Ronson
Everybody
Together
Film
" Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. "
Jon Ronson
Narrative
Go
End
" Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. "
Jon Ronson
Possible
Try
True
" When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things. "
Jon Ronson
Writing
You
Thinking
" When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges. "
Jon Ronson
Watch
Become
Hanging
" In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent. "
Jon Ronson
Place
God
Voice
" My entry into screenwriting was not smooth. "
Jon Ronson
Smooth
Entry
Screenwriting
" 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. "
Jon Ronson
Me
Bad
Trying
" Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished. "
Jon Ronson
Death
New York
Social Media
" Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin. "
Jon Ronson
Privilege
Sin
Worst
" There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules. "
Jon Ronson
Space
Say
Rules
" The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people. "
Jon Ronson
Great
Social Media
People
" In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. "
Jon Ronson
You
Patience
Empathy
" I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves. "
Jon Ronson
Feel Good
Good
Looking
" The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions. "
Jon Ronson
Lose
Empathy
Free
" 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. "
Jon Ronson
Me
Best
Day
" I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. "
Jon Ronson
Feel
Journalism
Facts
" I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful! "
Jon Ronson
Example
Admire
Beautiful
" 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. "
Jon Ronson
Klan
Inside
Well
" Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work. "
Jon Ronson
Think
Tough
People
" 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. "
Jon Ronson
Sometimes
You
Tyranny
" Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. "
Jon Ronson
Enjoy
Most
Mystery
" I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. "
Jon Ronson
Happened
Way
Surprised