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During reading I always thought about Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory, in one of the first series when he was sacked from his job. And when he comes to apologize with his mother, he says "I've called you an idiot during our first meeting. I'm sorry... for pointing that out.".

I suppose it's the same with many doctors who stamp "mentally ill" diagnoses on people. "If you disagree with me, then you should be treated."

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What's the same? Not trying to be rude, but what point were you trying to make?

Many powerful social positions in our society are occupied by not qualified enough people, who only have it through connections or inheritance or just conforming to overcomplicated modern social rules. Basically unquestioning conforming to any relevant authority until a person grows higher in power than it. In Sheldon case it was his new boss, who fired him for a reason than Sheldon did not bow to him (meaning that he should not ever question qualification of a more powerful person). In the essay, this behavior was shown on the example of a psychologist or psychiatrist, who also can develop a tendency to negatively evaluate anti-authoritarian people because they themselves have an opposite character type and are in a more powerful position. This especially concerns me because there are evidence of such abuse of power in cases of children, who can be put on medication just to be kept in the boarding school indefinitely (not sure if this a right name in English).

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