Your criticism seems sloppy. "Social control" and "oppression" can come from peers or superiors, so they don't pick out the concept the author is interested in,

Your criticism seems sloppy. "Social control" and "oppression" can come from peers or superiors, so they don't pick out the concept the author is interested in, which is specifically horizontal (peer) social control. That may not be a new concept - off the top of my head, I know Orwell wrote a lot about it - but you don't even seem to understand what the topic of the article is. You are upset about one sentence in the article, one that I also happen to disagree with. And on that basis, this sloppy dismissal of the whole piece? Lame.