T. M. Shorewick is predisposed to praise three contributing intellectuals who have developed a rubric of human existence that covers all the essential bases of “Knowing what it is to be a person.”
They are, briefly recognized:
Sigmund Freud. Who spelled out the three basic cogs of being a person. ID, the biological reality of living, EGO, the presentation of that reality to fellow humans, and SUPER EGO, that guilt which only humans feel and creates culture.
Noam Chomsky. Who studied language, a transcultural link of all humans, made connections so clear among all humans, but discovered the Deep Structure, which showed a common linkage despite the confusing differences caused by language.
Mel Brooks. This person took all this intellectual feathering and tossed it up in a way we could laugh and enjoy being human as it lightly fell back upon us.
T. M. Shorewick 