Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson
Jon Ronsonis a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goatsand The Psychopath Test. He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming something of a faux-naïf character himself in his stories...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth10 May 1967
people eccentric firsts
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
hero home america
No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.
Success is always less funny than failure.
say-anything accepting ideology
You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.
crazy people harder
It's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.
manifestation remorseless capitalism
Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.
religious political ruins
Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
crazy book adventure
I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.
people stories faces
I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.
writing paid bloggers
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
mean anxiety feelings
At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.
smart understanding trying
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.
looks banking rewards
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.
stories nightmare wells
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.