A memo from Google advising employees on correct thought
Link here. This memo clarifies for everyone what is expected of Google employees. I especially find this quote informative:
Please remember, as you no doubt read in the Employee Handbook, Google’s commitment to diversity is complete and unequivocal. Any variance from diversity is not permitted and will be dealt with immediately. It is only when all of us think exactly the same thoughts that we can achieve perfect diversity.
Of course, Google is also completely committed to the advancement of science and human knowledge. If history has taught us anything, it is that science can only flourish where the allowable topics of discussion are highly circumscribed. Approved subjects of conversation are posted throughout the campus, so please look before you speak.
I believe some of the problem lately has been a simple misunderstanding of my last memo. Unfortunately, I mistyped that Google “approves of free speech.” I meant to write that Google must “approve free speech.” I want all of our employees to feel perfectly free to express themselves however their political, moral, or religious beliefs impel them; provided of course that they receive prior written authorization.
Read it all. It really explains everything.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Link here. This memo clarifies for everyone what is expected of Google employees. I especially find this quote informative:
Please remember, as you no doubt read in the Employee Handbook, Google’s commitment to diversity is complete and unequivocal. Any variance from diversity is not permitted and will be dealt with immediately. It is only when all of us think exactly the same thoughts that we can achieve perfect diversity.
Of course, Google is also completely committed to the advancement of science and human knowledge. If history has taught us anything, it is that science can only flourish where the allowable topics of discussion are highly circumscribed. Approved subjects of conversation are posted throughout the campus, so please look before you speak.
I believe some of the problem lately has been a simple misunderstanding of my last memo. Unfortunately, I mistyped that Google “approves of free speech.” I meant to write that Google must “approve free speech.” I want all of our employees to feel perfectly free to express themselves however their political, moral, or religious beliefs impel them; provided of course that they receive prior written authorization.
Read it all. It really explains everything.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Bob,
I’m 99.9% sure that this is a parody.
Richard: Heh. I am 100% sure.
Let me add this: That you think it necessary to tell me that this is a parody demonstrates the absurdity of Google’s actions this week. It has become hard for people to tell the difference between their actual actions, ridiculous and contradictory, and a parody that is equally ridiculous and contradictory.
Yeah. a “Mutually Exclusive Propositions”? Seriously?
And that NAME? Unoi’m Carasee, Might that not be a deliberate ruse. U no i’m Cara See, You know I am Cara See?
This reeks of hoax/parody.
Couldn’t read the whole thing, double plus ungood!
Once individuals in the public can no longer tell what is real and true and what is a creation of someones or some entities agenda, the only thing that remains is where THEY decide to draw the line.
Sound familiar?
You make an un disputable observation and resulting point of logic about our current reality. It can only get worse.
PS: It can only get worse if we the individuals limit ourselves and there by remain blind to where that line might be drawn. Find the line of believability and be able to objectively rationalize and justify moving it and you can do pretty much anything that can be rationalized and justified.
Its a fairly simple formula which this story and comment panel perfectly demonstrates.
I agree with you Bob. The actions of companies such as Google are so absurd that the line between reality and parody is tough to discern.
Its not the difference between reality and parody, and this is the point that was made, its the difference between reality and a crafted narrative presented and accepted as reality and the inability to reliably tell the difference. Two very different things.
Parody is about humor and self reflection, what we are seeing is the shaping of a desired perception of reality that delivers a desired result and in turn a belief system.
The only way I knew it was a parody was because I know Google would never leave a paper trail.
It’s April already?