Editing Beyond Freedom and Dignity (section)

===The Design of a Culture===
Skinner notes that cultural design is not new, but is already existing and on-going.<ref>Skinner, B.F. Beyond  Freedom and Dignity. . 145</ref> Skinner notes that most discussions of current problems are dominated by metaphors, concerns for feelings and states of mind which do not illuminate possible solutions.<ref>Skinner, B.F. Beyond  Freedom and Dignity.  p.148</ref> Skinner notes that [[behavior modification]] is ethically neutral.<ref>p.150 "Such a technology is ethically neutral. It can be used by villain or saint." Skinner, B.F. Beyond Freedom and Dignity.</ref>

Skinner notes that [[Utopia]]n speculations, like his novel ''[[Walden Two]]'', are a kind of cultural engineering.<ref>Although Skinner mentions Plato, Augustine and was presumably inspired by Bacon's Atlantic and does not explicitly mention Walden Two in this reference. p.153 Skinner, B.F. Beyond  Freedom and Dignity.</ref> He then devotes much of the rest of this chapter to addressing the criticisms and complaints against cultural engineering.