The Prophetic Words of Senator Sam Ervin Circa 1974

We are all fish swimming in this poisoned water. Let's recognize the stench even if we can't escape.

Jul 16, 2020

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In 1971, B.F. Skinner published his work entitled Beyond Freedom & Dignity in which he imagined a sort of utopia in which personal choice was absent and behavioral control ruled all. Shoshana Zuboff summarizes the work, “Skinner imagined a pervasive ‘technology of behavior’ that would one day enable the application of behavior-modification methods acros…

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