Showing posts with label Jon Ronson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jon Ronson. Show all posts

Monday, 9 July 2012

Review: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Psychopaths? (from top) Emmanuel Constant (via wehaitians.com), Haitian death-squad leader; Albert John Dunlop (via Asylum), corporate downsizer; Bob Hare, creator of 'The Psychopath Test' (via Vancouver Institute); Jon Ronson (via aarkangel.wordpress.com).







As with much journalism, the real interest in Jon Ronson's book is found in the eccentrics he meets, rather than the ideas that he brushes over. He admits as much himself when he begins to discuss the implications of the media's obsession with the mad. Is it exploitative? he wonders, but that's about as far as he gets.