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Stephen,
I agree. The listserv has become Facebook, another place to argue politics. I am probably to blame, for posting the O'Connor story. I apologize. If I knew it would start a Left vs. Right argument, I wouldn't have posted it. -David
David Beck
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Hi: I thought this conversation medium was provided for opportunities to share reflection on Walker Percy’s writing and thought. The recent digressions into contemporary and or recent historical political observations and commentary are not helpful nor are they insightful.
Let’s focus on Percy’s vision and work, and not on extraneous ’stuff’ that is more likely to lead to argument (in the contemporary popular sense of combatting expressions of animus), rather than reasoned engagement with one another. Yes, there
are a lot of bad “thems” out there. We know less about ‘them' than we do the bad “me/us” that we are. And about that, Percy seemed to be most attentive and discerning.
Thanks for the opportunity to participate in the continuing conversation here.
Stephen
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