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Weirdos and Free Societies
October 10, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui
[Steve Jobs was] an adopted child, the biological son of a Syrian Muslim immigrant, a college dropout, a hippie who briefly converted to Buddhism and experimented with LSD — Jobs was the type of guy no sane human resources department would have hired.
In a free society a weirdo can do his own thing. In a free society he can even fail at his own thing, as Jobs undoubtedly did in his first stint in charge of Apple. And in a free society he can bounce back and revolutionize all our lives.
Somewhere in his father’s native Syria another Steve Jobs has just died. But this other Steve was gunned down by a tyrannical government. And what wonders his genius might have produced we shall never know.
In Lebanon he would have long been arrested as a “devil worshiper”.