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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
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In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere.
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At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?
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The idea of Donald Trump and Alex Jones and Roger Stone and Stephen Bannon having power over us - that is terrifying.
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Maybe it was the trying so hard to be normal that was making everyone so afraid they were going crazy.
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That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But
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which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges." "So
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Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn't going to swoop into a stranger's home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal.
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When I was writing my biography of LeBon," Bob Nye told me, "he seemed to me the biggest asshole in the whole of creation.
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TV is just troubled people being booed these days.
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The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.
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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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We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.
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Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.
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Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon
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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.
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Google has the informal corporate motto of "don't be evil", but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.' In
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Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. - DAVID ROSENHAN,
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Shame internalized can lead to agony.
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It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.
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The UFO community?" I said. "Why would government spies want to infiltrate that?" "Oh, Jon," said Steven. "Don't be naive.
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I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.
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There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.
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Success is always less funny than failure.
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We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society.
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As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.
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It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.
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And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination. There
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If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming.
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But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
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My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
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If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling 'jokes' like he was doing at a conference.
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Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we're hoping to better.
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Please ejaculate", I silently urged the man, "so I can go to sleep". (In this way I imagine I was like millions of women before me
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What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure.
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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?
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Others took exception to being forced to wear little-girl-type dresses (a psychopath-devised punishment for noncooperation in the program).
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[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.
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There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.
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I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.
— Jonathan King
He said ... Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today.
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maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I
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I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.
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Scattered throughout the week were a surprising number of speeches about how we may be killed by undocumented immigrants driving drunk. I
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Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.
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So, yeah, the psychopath might cry when his dog dies and you think that's misplaced because he doesn't cry when his daughter dies." I
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after his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn't have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world. Now,
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You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal.
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But they're being labeled bipolar. That's an enormous label that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.
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Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony.
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Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
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Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.
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Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she'll say, 'I can't. My eyes are swollen,
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what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them." He
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frightening person pretending to be normal. Things
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The NSA is looking for terrorists. They're not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you. -
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Their puffed-out cheeks are beetroot-red, making them resemble sweaty, meat-smeared squirrels.
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But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?
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Shameworthiness lies in the space between who we are and how we present ourselves to the world
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Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least to a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.
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I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
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Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
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this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing. Our
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We're living in post-nuance online times.
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His name was Roger Stone. And he was the man who first introduced Alex Jones to his close friend Donald Trump. *
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For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice.
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We should be like dogs.
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