These times …

… ‘Passionate’ Belief in Freedom of Speech and Multiplying Orthodoxies. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

There is no midnight knock on the door, at least not yet, to ensure conformity, but those who question these little orthodoxies (whose content, incidentally, changes all the time, but also extends in scope, like multiplying starfish crawling over a coral reef) are subject to such punishments as ostracism or black-listing.