Just heard of this book although I have not read it and probably won't. The preface from Wiki is disturbing enough but wondering if anyone here may have read it? If it feels like your being manipulated on a grand scale, perhaps you are. This book was written in 1948.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Two

Walden Two is a utopian novel written by behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner, first published in 1948. In its time, it could have been considered science fiction, since science-based methods for altering people's behavior did not yet exist.[1][2] Such methods are now known as applied behavior analysis.

Walden Two is controversial because its characters speak of a rejection of free will,[3] including a rejection of the proposition that human behavior is controlled by a non-corporeal entity, such as a spirit or a soul.[4] Walden Two embraces the proposition that the behavior of organisms, including humans, is determined by environmental variables,[5] and that systematically altering environmental variables can generate a sociocultural system that very closely approximates utopia.[6] [sic]