I’m sorry it took me this long to find this post and your profile.
This is so on point. Thank you for sharing this. I hope more people read this. 
I’m going to circulate this in my circles. 
That George Orwell quote about hating those that speak the truth is so relevant to how I’m spoken to sometimes. 
Many people in the executive levels of advertising companies have shown me the door because they can’t “tell clients we didn’t know what we were doing the past 10 years.”