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141 " I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read the DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. "
― Jon Ronson , The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
142 " Fiction seemed all about harnessing infinity. In fiction, when you walk into a restaurant and you sit down, there’s nobody there and the restaurant doesn’t exist. The restaurant is a horrific, never-ending nothingness. So you make scattershot decisions about what the restaurant might look like and the person you might be sitting with. "
― Jon Ronson , Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie
143 " the American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was “the desire to run away from slavery” and the cure was to “whip the devil out of them "
144 " In fact ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I’ve been seeing it everywhere. Everywhere. "
― Jon Ronson , So You've Been Publicly Shamed
145 " I understood why parents would want to do that, but it wasn’t the message I was going for. If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming. Justine’s crime had been a badly worded joke mocking privilege. To see the catastrophe as her fault felt to me a little like ‘Don’t wear short skirts’. It felt like victim-blaming. "
146 " She summarized: “So. Don’t get shitfaced, don’t fist her ass, enjoy. "
147 " Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal,” said Allen Frances. "
148 " But they’re being labeled bipolar. That’s an enormous label that’s going to stay with you for the rest of your life. "
149 " That’s the psychopath: somebody who doesn’t understand what’s going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened.” But "
150 " He fulfilled the bipolar checklist. See? And so they gave him some pretty heavy-duty medication. It slowed him way down, to a drooling fat kid. And they declared the meds a success.” It "
151 " I would also say you can never reduce any person to a diagnostic label. "
152 " Manipulative?” I said. “I think you could describe that as leadership,” he said. “Inspire! I think it’s called leadership.” “Are "
153 " There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. "
154 " He had experienced only kindness and forgiveness. Actually, it wasn't kindness and forgiveness. It was something much better than that. It was nothing. He experienced nothing. "
155 " He had twenty followers. Some were people I knew from real life, who were probably wondering why I’d suddenly become so passionate about fusion cooking and candid about dreaming about cock. "
156 " I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality? "
157 " Their puffed-out cheeks are beetroot-red, making them resemble sweaty, meat-smeared squirrels. "
― Jon Ronson , Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
158 " what we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing. "
159 " As a group they tend to be more charming than most people,” she said. “They have no warm emotions of their own but will study the rest of us. "
160 " we’re raised to believe that deep down everyone has a conscience.” At "