KING KONG, RED IN THE FACE
It is about twelve o’clock p.m. The blazing sun is whipping the birds at work for their daily bread. Every bird is running for a shelter. Majority of them have gathered themselves under the mango tree. The warm, gentle wind is blowing around them. They have started scratching their bodies, smiling in happiness. The flying birds are chirping on the trees, doing likewise. A rooster is chasing after a red, spotted hen in the wild, blazing sun. He has caught her and mounted on her, mated. The other roosters are watching at the show, not caring, because it is a lazy afternoon, which is not proper to be fighting about girls. It is only the cows which are grazing the withering grass, being shepherded. The goats and the sheep are chewing the cuds under the pear tree, lying in laziness.
There comes King Kong! Not forgetting his majestic pace. He is treading ahead of the sunbeams to find a shelter, too. He doesn’t want to join the other birds because they are slaves. He is suffering in the blazing sun. He might have run, but he is red in the face. Anger has let him forget the furry striking of the sun on his back. Today, he must chastise all birds because they never respect him. If he stops chastising them, the anger will not wipe away. He must, therefore, act accordingly. His word must be a law. He speaks in all anger. While the other birds are lodging somewhere, full of thoughts, King Kong is thinking of how he must deal with them drastically.
What world is this? What a world we live in!
While some people are completely with full of thoughts, thinking of the next meal, others are completely with full of thoughts, thinking of how they can break the shoulders of these vulnerable ones.
Some are wretched in all their lives, if I may say so. Only the superiors must become angry. How come a subordinate become angry! It would be a hell on earth. There are only few people who have had authority over the inhabitants on the earth. According to sociologists, there are two main classes of people in this world, in the capitalist states, namely bourgeoisies and proletariats. Bourgeoisies are the superiors of the world while proletariats are the vulnerable and wretched people in this world. The bourgeoisies rule the proletariats in absolute anger.
Surprisingly, No law is supreme over the one who enacted the law. A law is enacted against those of less or no authority. This means that any law is supreme over he who did not or could not enact the law. There is a law in every rank, but its supremacy is controlled by those at the peak of the ladder of authority. As one goes up gradually, he gradually becomes stronger than the law. Those on power, who enacted the law, have no fear in violating it but those who are vulnerable. A law is a medium through which the superiors on the earth pass to swaddle the subordinates. “Thy-Shall-Not” makers are the “Shall” Doers, and “Thy-Shall” makers are the “Shall-Not” doers. You cannot understand all things; therefore, obey. I say obey. “Thy-Shall-Shall-Not” makers rule in anger.
Anger destroys many plans. Anger destroys nations. Anger destroys organizations. Anger puts a country into destruction. Anger can massacre many innocent people. Anger can kill oneself. Anger can cause a lorry accident. Anger deforms the stature of a person. Anger can burn someone’s farm or plantation. Anger can put you to shame. You can never meet your goal on the road of anger. Anger is not a good friend that can help you achieve your goal. With anger, concentration is lost. Anger breaks the heart. Anger weakens the body.
It is anger that divided the churches up to now! Through anger one can slaughter his dear wife. Through anger one killed her husband by adding powder of a ground bottle to his food, well prepared. Anger can bring about different kinds of wars. Anger can bring about divisions. Anger can bring about ending a government. Anger can cause disagreement. Anger can cause litigation. Anger can let you forget where you have kept a treasure. Anger brings about broken home. Anger doesn’t bring respect between people. Anger can cause hatred. Anger can cause discord. Anger can cause faction. And anger causes anger. Anger is what anger does.
It was through anger that early Christians were persecuted. In his book, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, John Foxe writes:
The first of these ten persecutions was stirred up by Nero about the year of our Lord threescore and four. The tyrannous rage of which emperor was very fierce against the Christians, ‘insomuch that (as Eusebius recordeth) a man might then see cities full of men’s bodies, the old there lying together with the young, and the dead bodies of women cast out naked, without all reverence of that sex, in the open streets.’ Many there were of the Christians in those days, who, seeing the filthy abominations and intolerable cruelty of Nero, thought that he was antichrist.
As Lawrence, one of the martyrs, was about to be burned in a blazing fire, the persecutor told him to recant Jesus. And when he refused, this is how the persecutor acted, according to John Foxes:
Kindle the fire (he cried)—of wood make no spare. Hath this villain deluded the emperor? Away with him, away with him: whip him with scourges, jerk him with rods, buffet him with fists, brain him with clubs. Jesteth the traitor with the emperor? Pinch him with fiery tongs, gird him with burning plates, bring out the strongest chains, and the fire-forks, and the prated bed of iron: on the fire with it; bind the rebel hand and foot; and when the bed is fire-hot, on with him …