SIMRAN MUKHERJEE

“We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed,” he said, “the whole thing crumbles.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a ‘feeling’, for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absence of warmth. And when it reaches overwhelming intensity, shame is experienced, like cold, as a feeling of numbness and deadness.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed