If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming.
If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling ‘jokes’ like he was doing at a conference.
I would also say you can never reduce any person to a diagnostic label.
I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top—in the corporate and political worlds—a clinical absence of empathy being a benefit in those environm...
I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you.
Goebbels thinks that no one since the Frenchman LeBon has understood the mind of the masses as well as he, wrote Goebbels’s aide Rudolf Semmler in his wartime diary.
For the first hundred years, as far as I could tell, all that happened in America was that various people named Nathaniel had purchased land near rivers.
They can’t shit on us, said Alex. That’s really what I’m saying. You can’t shit on us anymore. There was a silence. I just want them to stop shitting on us, said Alex. OK, I said. Sorry.
The New York Times, baffled by Delaware’s obstinacy, tried to argue the state into change in an 1867 editorial. If it had previously existed in [the convicted person’s] bosom a spark of self-respect t...
Judging a person on how flustered they appear in the face of a shaming is a truly strange and arbitrary way of forming an opinion on someone. •
It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it’s equally possible that he’s simply a bored creep looking for a cheap thrill.
It is a frightening and huge thought, I said, that the ninety-nine percent of us wandering around down here are having our lives pushed and pulled around by that psychopathic fraction up there. It
I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsib...
His name was Roger Stone. And he was the man who first introduced Alex Jones to his close friend Donald Trump. *
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.
After the interview ended, Stone and I were ushered out. Alex had an interview with Ted Nugent to conduct. In the elevator, Stone scrutinized me. When we try to assess threats, he said, the kooks are...
According to Google’s own research into our eye movements, 53 percent of us don’t go beyond the first two search results, and 89 percent don’t look down past the first page.
We tend to love nothing more than to declare other people insane.
We have to think about what level of mercilessness we feel comfortable with.
If a person was overcome by a violent madness he’d involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana.