B. F. Skinner

Walden Two made me really stop and think, long and hard about some things. Yeah, I think it has a few flaws, like Skinner's view on child rearing. But his ideas about work are refreshing. He describes residents in his commune only having to do about 4 hours of real work a day. They do some work they really enjoy too. Since there is no middle men or bosses profit from them, that's all it takes. The planet earth should be able to produce enough food for every man, woman, and child. There is so much waste and extravagance though while others can't pay their bills and currently starve to death. If we could eliminate that, we could have a Utopia, although the Capitalist system can no longer work in a paradise on earth. People would no longer dominate over other people. Similarly we can neither have Communism work because the government people in power start to become the elite and have more rights and privilege. This is what happened in Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Tell me what you think about modeled civilizations and more in Movies and films, like Armageddon. Why the fascination with such End Times or end-of-the-world media?