{"id":62517,"date":"2021-04-16T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=62517"},"modified":"2021-04-15T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T12:12:21","slug":"qotd-declaring-passionate-belief-in-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/04\/16\/qotd-declaring-passionate-belief-in-freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Declaring passionate belief in freedom of speech&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>One of the phrases in the mouth of managers or bureaucrats that indicates almost unfailingly that they are about to commit an act of betrayal is, &#8220;We believe passionately in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that most managers or bureaucrats believe in passionately is their career, in the broad sense of that term: for they are quite willing to abandon or sacrifice a career completely in the narrow sense if it is in the interest of their career in a broader sense.<\/p>\n<p>I learned this in the hospitals in which I worked. As soon as a hospital manager said &#8220;I believe passionately in the work that Department X has been doing,&#8221; I knew that Department X was about to be closed down by that very same manager.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when I read that a publisher claimed that &#8220;We believe passionately in freedom of speech,&#8221; I knew at once that the publisher was about to withdraw a book from publication that it had previously advertised for publication.<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Dalrymple, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newenglishreview.org\/blog_direct_link.cfm?blog_id=70432&#038;%2DPassionate%2D%2DBelief%2Din%2DFreedom%2Dof%2DSpeech%2Dand%2DMultiplying%2DOrthodoxies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;&#8216;Passionate&#8217; Belief in Freedom of Speech and Multiplying Orthodoxies&#8221;, <em>New English Review<\/em><\/a>, 2020-12-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the phrases in the mouth of managers or bureaucrats that indicates almost unfailingly that they are about to commit an act of betrayal is, &#8220;We believe passionately in.&#8221; The only thing that most managers or bureaucrats believe in passionately is their career, in the broad sense of that term: for they are quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,28,41],"tags":[459,186,480,261,1289],"class_list":["post-62517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-media","category-quotations","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-hypocrisy","tag-management","tag-theodoredalrymple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ggl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65192,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62517\/revisions\/65192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}