Letter From Corporate Headquarters

38 / CHRONICLESnLetter FromnCorporatenHeadquartersnby Thomas L. MammosernA New Bottom LinenIn his provocative book Ideas HavenConsequences, Richard Weaver offerednsome poignant observations regardingnmodern times. Western man, henwrote, has fallen prey to a "falsifiednpicture" of the world, characterized bynmaterialism and an egotism which assumesnthat "man's destiny in the worldnis not to perfect himself . . .