Walker Percy

This one was a difficult read for me. I felt like the obvious was being over explained. In way Percy is directly proving what Nietzsche was talking about in On Truth and Lies in the Nonmoral sense. Everyone has a human brain. The “built in” mechanisms of our brain allow us to develop a scaffolding or web work of expectations based on our experiences. This allows us to fit comfortably inside this world we have created within our own perspectives.
Percy goes on to say in his example of the tourists in Mexico who stumble upon an unknown village by accident. They immediately think of their friend the Ethnologist. In order to get the feeling that their experience was real and that they had seen the “it” that makes seeing Mexico worthwhile, they sought out the perspective of an expert who would know for sure. “\They wanted him, not to share their experience, but to certify their experience as genuine.” So in other words they wanted to say “I told you so.”
I find this unsettling. As from my perspective, as I have undoubtedly spoken about before, I have the unique ability to remove myself from the picture and to see things in a “natural” light so to speak. I do not understand the concept of living up to expectation as I do not hold any other than to myself to do the best I can. I see things the way they are by leaving myself vulnerable. I do not feel the need to explain or to show off my understanding of what is to someone else, therefore the translation of emotion into words comes direct like a firing synapse within my brain.
I will admit, because I am human, that sometimes I do feel the need for acceptance. That is to say that they way I see things is in fact “the” way to see them. However that is a trap to easy to fall into. I tell myself that this is of course ONE way to see it, and that there are about…h lets say six billion or so ways of seeing it.