We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context … - Jon Ronson

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

Jon Ronson

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

Context, Curious, Midst, Smart, Trying, Understanding

Same Author Quotes

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

Anxiety, Happens, Happy, Kind, Lower, People

Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we're hoping to better.

Acting, Hate, Mistake, Tabloid, Tabloids, Twitter

Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

Draconian, Justice, Twitter, Wanted

My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind of a window into people's lives where we could be compassionate and curious and empathetic and we could tell each other secrets.

Ideal, Lives, People, Secret, Twitter, World

The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing.

Damaged, Dehumanizing, Laughing, People, Way