An Addendum to Rob's "Summer Book Report"

The Church and JPII have an ally in Noam Chomsky, who wrote the following in his book For Reasons of State (1973) at page 404:

"A vision of future social order is . . . based on a concept of human nature. If in fact man is an infinitely malleable, completely plastic being, with no innate structures of mind and no intrinsic needs of a cultural or social character, then he is a fit subject for 'shaping behavior' by the state authority, the corporate manager, the technocrat, or the central committee. Those with some confidence in the human species . . . will try to determine the intrinsic human characteristics that provide the framework for intellectual development, the growth of moral consciousness, cultural achievement, and participation in a free community."

Michael