AMERICAN LOGRES HISTORY PART 1

AMERICAN LOGRES HISTORY

OUR ROOTS

America has had its seasons of Logres.

THE PILGRIMS

The Pilgrims received a vision of “Logres”. but it was for “over there.” Across that ocean. Strangers in a strange land they would be. but the “call” was there. They went. And faithful they were, to the Logres.

THE PURITANS

The Puritans saw the “Logres.” a “City on a Hill.” Logres won’t come unless we “seek” after it.” The Puritans did. But they made the mistake of compelling everyone else to submit to the “vision.” That is not the way of Logres.
You’ve gotta let people come around to things. They may not.
Free will must always be honored. Liberty.

THE FOUNDING FATHERS

The Logres, in a powerful manifestation, blew a vision of liberty into the souls of many in the English controlled colonies over here. It was the passionate and courageous birth of what would become the Logres of an American Nation.
A new nation. Free from tyranny. Self- government. Community. Commitment to one another. Individualism. Ingenuity. (Yankee, at first. But it turned out to be the entire country.)
The young nation followed a “vision” of how democracy in action, under God’s guidance, might work. Equality. Liberty. Community. All three… working together in harmony. creativity.
At first we copied England and the rest of Europe. But after a while, something new emerged; that quality, those characteristics the whole world sees as “American”. In fact, American “Logres.”
All of America’s ideals proceed from the “Logres.”
Whenever America has welcomed the “Gleam” of Logres, peace and creative growth have followed.
Whenever we have bowed to serve the idols of greed for power and devotion to money, the “Gleam” of Logres has receded. Inspiration and goodwill depart, followed by a quickly withering decay of the culture into a “wasteland.”
Anti-Logres pervades the people, the whole way of life. The poor are oppressed. The people become angry, breaking into factions where contempt festers. The arts grow anemic and uninspired. Dark cynicism infects the music and the films. People’s hearts grow cold and self-absorbed.

The prospect of Logres lies before us. Americans have always needed to choose between the two.

John Kay and his band, Steppenwolf, are remembered around the world for their classic 60's anthem, "Born to Be Wild." Far less known is their title song, "Monster", from their third album.

I wonder if John and the others had any sense of what they were touching on, when they created their story of American History. I believe they were plotting the very map of the presence of "Logres" in America. That song probes far more deeply than the 60's concerns with the Vietnam War and governement surveillance of radical activists. These hard rockers were observing with insight the very struggle between Logres and Anti-Logres, with both compassion as well as indictment towards America, unusual for those polarized times.

The "Monster" of the Anti-Logres was oppressing American society, splitting us apart in the 1960's. Where are we today?

John Kay, your anthem has been "haunting" me for 39 years. I wonder if my theory of the Logres is connecting for you at all.

If perchance, this blog reaches your attention, please contact me, if you feel I might be on to something.

I strongly recommend everyone reading this blog to purchase the song, "Monster/ Suicide/ America."

Here are the words to the final anthem of the song:

“America, where are you now?
Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
Don’t you know we need you now?
We can’t fight alone against the Monster.”

And finally, from my heart:

‘O Logres, where art thou?” We need you now.