Freemasonry's Quandry?

When you search the Internet and look at what is promoted as historical information as to the Craft of Freemasonry you will inevitably finds references to "famous" Masons. If they are so famous why then do "we" have to tell you? As I see it in this "long bridge" from the "olde guard" to us the "newbies" there is this nostalgic want of the past. Where the actors of the silver screen and the captains of industry were Masons. Dude. That's gone. Yes on the rare occasion "we" can still lay claim to a politician or a company President or a current "war hero". But the day when our ranks had a goodly percentage of those fellows is for the time being gone. What "we" have now upon the transitional bridge are those fellows of everyday life and of everyday everything. The recent article in the LA Times (see link) was much touted but honestly I have seen this in my own home lodge for many years. "We" the representatives of everyday men are at the end of the bridge waving bye-bye to Clark Gable, John Wayne and President Truman. "We" may achieve these worldly things of prestige or fame in our lifetime and like Albert Pike the Esoteric Poster Boy "we may" in what "we may become" shall reside on some list someday somewhere on somebody's Internet Machine... That's it....

JL

http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ig-masons18-2008may18,0,562412.story