Skinner’s utopia was meant to illustrate the possibility of a successful social order that transcends the use of force and rejects the need to dominate human souls. The Walden Two community equally disdains the practices of democratic politics and representative government. Its laws are derived from a science of human behavior, specifically Skinner’s own radical behaviorism, founded on the physicist’s ideal of the Other-One. His utopia was a vehicle for other ambitions as well, intended to illustrate the behavioral solutions that are essential for improvement in every domain of modern life: the nuclear threat, pollution, population control, urban growth, economic equality, crime, education, health care, the development of the individual, effective leisure. It aimed to cultivate “the good life,” for which all the ideals of a liberal society—freedom, autonomy, privacy, a people’s right to self-rule—must be forfeit.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1186