The point was that he did make noise (albeit softly), and his noise went unheard. If you express your honest concerns, and those concerns fall on deaf ears, yo

The point was that he did make noise (albeit softly), and his noise went unheard. If you express your honest concerns, and those concerns fall on deaf ears, you'll know that your input won't matter in the future either. Machine analogy doesn't work here, because machines don't understand human psychology.