Skinner’s plan replaces politics with dispassionate schedule administration.

Evidence

In Walden Two a “plan” replaces politics, overseen by a “noncompetitive” group of “Planners” who eschew power in favor of the dispassionate administration of the schedules of reinforcement aimed at the greater good. Planners exercise unique control over society but “only because that control is necessary for the proper functioning of the community.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1378

Categorization

• XREF: The Planners’ self-justifying ‘control necessary for proper functioning’ mirrors surveillance capitalism’s claim that behavioral modification is benign administration rather than power—ties to the Foucaultian power-as-administration thread. — connects to: Skinner saw democratic politics as friction threatening rational efficiency. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1377; Skinner’s reinforcement schedules replace simple stimulus-response with engineered behavior shaping. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 924

Broader Connections

• Skinner’s reinforcement schedules replace simple stimulus-response with engineered behavior shaping. #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 924