![]() ![]() I nearly called the book The Terror at one point, but people thought it sounded a bit too much like Twilight. You were originally going to call this book either Shame or Tarred and Feathered, but So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed sounds like a doctor’s self-help pamphlet. I’m showing people the consequences of their actions. Until this book, nobody has been confronted with the people that they’ve destroyed. We were reducing people to the worst thing they ever did. I spent more and more time on Twitter and I was loving punishing bad people - and then it dawned on me that we were losing our moral compass. You’ve admitted to doing a decent amount of shaming yourself. It was this jubilant tearing apart of this woman who was oblivious to the fact that she was being torn apart. I found the Justine thing especially horrific. What first attracted you to the concept of public shaming?īy the time the Justine thing happened, I think I understood something that other people hadn’t realized yet: We’ve sleepwalked into creating this surveillance society where we were tearing each other apart for nothing. In previous books like Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats, the journalist delved into the world of idiosyncratic, fringe elements of society. With Shamed, the call is coming from inside the house. Ronson examines all aspects of the shaming process, from the online grenade-throwers to humiliation porn stars to “reputation management” experts who can expunge your previous transgressions from Google. ![]()
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