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An Apple engineer, Antonio García Martínez, who wrote the NY Times bestseller in 2016, was fired by the company this week after thousands of coworkers signed a petition calling for an investigation into his hiring based their reaction to selected quotes from the book.
The book ‘Chaos Monkeys‘ is currently rising again on many booksellers’ sales charts, so the vapid Apple employees who instigated this “protest” have succeeded in having García Martínez’s oh-so-terrible passages be even more widely read than ever.
Very likely they’ve also succeed in causing Apple to eventually pay him a hefty sum in a legal judgement or, most likely, a settlement. Congratulations on your efforts.
But, hey, their warm puddle of groupthink remains unpolluted by independent thought. So, there’s that.
We have a feeling that Steve Jobs, of all people, would not approve:
Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts. —
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