Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-01-11
Books mentioned on Part One: The Judge Rotenberg Center
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Robert Evans discussed WALDEN TWO by B.F. SKINNER.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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WALDEN TWO
Walden Two by B.F.
Discussed“At the library one day he found a book his professor had written but not assigned to the class. A book called Walden 2. And I'm going to quote from a write up in Boston magazine.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing WALDEN TWO
“That year though, he attended a Walden 2 conference where other weird BF Skinner nerds talked about how to start their own utopian societies. 83 people attended and he met a couple of folks who were willing to get involved in such a project with him”
Passing WALDEN TWO
“He's a historian of like specifically the people who like rallied around Walden 2. And Kman writes that Israel's goal was to take BF Skinner's utopian experiments a step further. Privately, Israel started to call his work Walden 3.”