Editing Walden Two (section)

==The community==
The novel describes "an experimental community called Walden Two".<ref>Skinner, B. F. (1985). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741768/pdf/behavan00064-0007.pdf "News From Nowhere, 1984"]. ''The Behavior Analyst,'' '''8'''(1), pp. 5–14. "My name is Burris. I live in an experimental community called Walden Two". p. 5.</ref><ref name="Altus">Altus, Deborah E., and Morris, Edward K. (2009). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778813/pdf/bhan-32-02-319.pdf "B. F. Skinner's Utopian Vision: Behind and Beyond ''Walden Two''"]. ''The Behavior Analyst,'' '''32'''(2), pp. 319–335. B. F. Skinner regarded ''Walden Two'' as his "book about an experimental community". p. 320.</ref> The community is located in a rural area and "has nearly a thousand members".<ref>''Walden Two,'' p. 18.</ref> The community encourages its members "to view every habit and custom with an eye to possible improvement" and to have "a constantly experimental attitude toward everything".<ref>''Walden Two,'' p. 25.</ref> The culture of Walden Two can be changed if experimental evidence favors proposed changes. The community emulates (on a communal scale) the [[simple living]] and [[self-sufficiency]] that [[Henry David Thoreau]] practiced (on an individual scale) at [[Walden Pond]], as described in his 1854 book ''[[Walden]]''. Walden Two engages in behavioral engineering of young children that aims toward cooperative relationships and the erasure of competitive sentiments. The community has also dissolved the [[nuclear family]] through placing the responsibility of child-rearing in the hands of the larger community and not just the child's parents or immediate family.