Walker Percy

Mar 20, 2024 | newoxfordreview.org | Walker Percy |Edgar Allan Poe

Caitlin Smith Gilson is professor of philosophy at University of Holy Cross in New Orleans and visiting professor of philosophy at Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome. She is the author of eight books of Catholic theology, Christian philosophy, and religious poetry.

Oct 16, 2023 | shorturl.at | Marc Andreessen |Walker Percy |Ben Horowitz |Chris Dixon

You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Walker Percy Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow.