He’s upset and exposed enough ‘highly influential,’ and in many cases, dangerous and violent people… so it makes total sense to me that Jon Ronson should live in a constant state of paranoia (Danny Casolaro, anyone?). He doesn’t, but the subject does crop up in an old interview (’07) at RINF.com:
Rinf.com: We’ve seen you in some understandably scared and paranoid states of mind. When did the paranoia end?
Jon Ronson: My paranoia never ends, but I haven’t been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. When I was writing The Men Who Stare At Goats my producer John Sergeant and I were told that Homeland Security or possibly Military Intelligence were interested in us. For a while we thought we should email each other in code, like, “Wednesday is the day of the big wedding”, or whatever, but that we decided that that sounds worse. Right now I am paranoid just about dull domestic matters.
http://www.rinf.com/articles/jon-ronson-q-a.html
