Turned Society Into a Big Skinner Box and Controlled Behavior Deliberately

If we turned society into a big Skinner box and controlled behavior deliberately rather than haphazardly, we could eliminate aggression, overpopulation, crowding, pollution, and inequality, and thereby attain utopia. The noble savage became the noble pigeon.

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— Steven Pinker

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