So You've Been Publicly Shamed

by Ronson, Jon

Published: March 9, 2015

Read: October 1, 2017

★★★★★

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Review

The book reads more like a story than a nonfiction book following the author's progression through his study of shame. He follows and interviews the participants of various modern social media public shaming and analyzes how their lives were ruined for innocent acts. The internet and public relentlessly berated and destroyed their lives from afar devastating their self-worth. While I kept waiting for some real analysis to begin, the author weaved knowledge in timely sections of his story. Luckily, the stories followed a reasonable progression building up a good understanding of shame. The stories are a lengthy way to explore the elements of shame, but the engaging characters and writing will stick with me as great stories of people who were trashed for doing nothing wrong. I learned some pretty interesting tidbits, scattered throughout the book. When he finally got around to adventurous conclusions, they were particularly well rooted by his stories. But, the end was only slightly satisfying without any real grand conclusions or theories. Overall, good book, I wouldn't really recommend it though just because it is primarily an interesting case studies of people by an author interested in the subject.

Notes

#Book by [[Jon Ronson]]

• We all hold a terror that we will be found out. That one day we will blurt out something stupid that will make everyone realize we are a [[Fraud]]
• Every since I've learned about [[Confirmation Bias]] I've been seeing it everywhere so it must be true
• Jonah Laire the book writer that was outed by the small time journalist
• Going to Africa, hope I don't get aids jk I'm white girl
• Swinger who did it with journalists and killed themselves when published as warned
• [[Stanford Prison Experiment]], one guard went wild and later said he was just pretending and all the media around it is overblown
• Hitler sex tape released and guy emerged strongly by not showing shame and going on tv and saying you shouldn't be judged for that and sued journal for saying it was Nazi-themed. Maybe [[Sex]] acts aren't shameful anymore though, being racist or sexist is where the real shame is thrown these days
• Girl who disrespect military memorial
• These people didnt even do anything wrong
• [[Shame]] is a main driver of violence, to be respected just for a moment
• Give prisoners dignity to change their cycle of abuse can be helpful, but should we give them more forgiveness then we give each other(people who did atrocious things)