Camelot, JFK

Camelot is everywhere and nowhere. It is possibility of mankind's goodness and idealism transplanted on American soil as the American Dream and embodied in JFK and his leadership. Obama is a resurrection of that perennial dream, the Camelot dream
and brings the world of all possibility to our doorstep.
I am not boundlessly optimistic . Consider the Evian Conference and the failure of the St Louis to dock on,yes, American shores. Consider the tragedy of the Holocaust in its entirety. History and our blighted nature is not erased in a fell swoop. Excessive idealism of this kind is dangerous and the most negative of thinking I can conceive of.

Pope Pius XII has often been accused (my other post) of turning a blind eye to speaking out against atrocities against the Jews in the Holocaust era. My video on www.myspace.com/edwardsgallery on my recent blog entries dispels this calumny as Pope Benedict XVI defends his action. I opt that the church canonize this blessed hero.

This is the incarnation of Camelot a perennial story of the ages. L'Morte D'Arthur by Malory(?) is a retelling of the chivalric age of the round table. It illustrates we (all of us) cannot bear "goodness" for long and bear the miseries of the ancient night encroaching on us and we turn our faces once again from Camelot.

synch-ro-ni-zing: Inauguration Day: for the eyes

synch-ro-ni-zing: Inauguration Day: for the eyes
Camelot is a transplant of the chivalric world of everywhere and noweher embodied by JFK and transplanted as the American Dream. Obama is seen as the recent version of this recent idealism often attending decaying decaying empires in an anomalous fashion.