There are forces for and against persons having mental integrity. Standardized protocols are necessary, but the against side goes further, to discourage conceiving, thinking, seeing, communicating, etc outside the control structure.
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Psychiatry labels cognitive/personality variations (even functional ones) as pathological and medicates them toward normality (see Szasz). There are often norms against deliberation and independent judgment. School is designed to break the will http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/04/school-is-to-submit.html …
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It's common to tell people not to think for themselves and instead trust the experts even when the experts have demonstrated themselves untrustworthy. Six sigma-type methodology applied in institutions normalizes the components (humans) toward low variance.
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