Smooth operations leave no room for unreasonable or unintentional outcomes, and Skinner viewed the creative and often messy conflicts of politics, especially democratic politics, as a source of friction that threatens the rational efficiency of the community as a single, high-functioning "superorganism." He laments our inclination to try to change things with "political action," and he endorses what he perceives as a widespread loss of faith in democracy. In Walden Two Frazier insists that "I don't like the despotism of ignorance. I don't like the despotism of neglect, of irresponsibility, the despotism of accident, even. And I don't like the despotism of democracy!"

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1377