ply to the dynamic and uncontrollable human race and human condition the principles he has gleaned from training pigeons to peck at a bar in order to be fed.
Skinner also has no knowledge of history, or at least gives that appearance of ignorance, for his book presents another recipe for paradise when it is nothing but another recipe for disaster. Has he no knowledge of all the great experiments for happiness on earth which have resulted in jot only failure but usually untold disaster for millions? Has he not heard of Nazism, or Communism, or Capitalism?
Skinner's basic argument is that the source of human problems on the earth is the illusion that human beings need freedom, that human beings thrive on freedom, or that such a thing as freedom even exists. Essentially, Skinner is saying that human beings are the same as other
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