Walden Two

B.F. Skinner wrote “Walden Two” during the post war WWII time. His story is about a community in America called Walden Two. The story takes place as two professor’s travel to the community along with two soldiers and their girlfriends. The soldiers had just gotten back from the war and were interested in Walden Two because of all the negativity seen after the war. The story is centered on the experience at Walden Two and exploring how the community works. Taken as a piece of psychological fantasy the book is very interesting to read. The concept of a utopian community in which everyone has an equal share of the responsibilities and an equal share of the profit, is very appealing especially in this culture. One of the main centerpieces of the ideology is that everyone is happy and content in their life. Taking modern day society as a whole, that is not the case in everyday living. The concept of living a simple life in which I am happy and content is very appealing and drew me into the book quickly. Walden Two is essentially a big experiment and has been going for the last ten years. When the two professors asked questions about the way things would be in the future, Frazier could not normally answer the questions. Looking at in from a scientifically perspective, this community interests me very much. The thought of having a long term experiment in which people are living out their lives, could gather so much data. That being the human side of me seen Frazier as just that, a scientist, who’s care was not really for the people but instead on the psychology of it all. The gender discriminations of Walden Two bothered me to an extent and I had to continue to remind myself the era the book was written in. The fact that all the women in the community are very attractive, yet Frazier tries to play this off my saying they are not restricted in the way they dress (28). Also the fact that the sleep quarters and wash rooms are gender specific speaks to the time of