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A
Fable Of Murakee And The Plague
Once upon a time in the
recent past in a not too distant land known as Murakee, a great national crisis
arose. Murakee had, for more than two
hundred years, been recognized by nearly all the other countries on the little
planet they occupied as the greatest nation on that little planet which circled
a small star along with eight other planets,
although one of those planets was sometimes derided and belittled by the occupants of the others, if there were
occupants on any besides the one which Murakee occupied. Murakee had always been led by a leader who
was chosen by the people in what they called a referendum every time the little
planet had revolved around the little star four times. Sometimes, the referendum in Murakee would
allow a particularly good leader to choose their ways for four more revolutions
around the little star.
It was a very good and
efficient system until a time came when the referendum chose a wonderful leader
and allowed him to direct their choices for eight complete revolutions around
the star. In a manner particularly
peculiar to Murakee, this leader was not liked by a portion of the citizens
because he was a decidedly dark skinned man.
To these citizens of Murakee, there could be nothing they thought less
of than a dark skinned man even though this dark skinned man was a great
leader, wise, benevolent, rational in his thoughts and deeds, and always
working for the good of both Murakee and the little planet which revolved
around the little star.
The end of this dark
skinned man’s eight revolutions around the planet came at a time when the worst
enemy of Murakee was working diligently to gain control of the entire
planet. This enemy of the people and the
nation of Murakee was known as “Renowned Prince” or “Most Fearful Oligarch” in
his own land and by many less pleasant names in Murakee and several other
nations on the little planet. The “Most
Fearful Oligarch” had risen to his position in his nation by working in a
company of men and women who kept the citizens of their nation in fear and
obedience and it was his desire to do the same with all the nations of the
world. His means of gaining footholds in other nations such as Murakee was to
find a citizen of such a country and to exploit that citizens weaknesses such
as dishonesty, calumny, deception, vanity, and ignorance by giving them little
favors which would play upon their vanity and ignorance especially well. Long before the crisis which we speak of
arose in Murakee, the “Most Fearful Oligarch” and his country had provided little
favors to a particular man in Murakee who skin was white to please that portion
of the people who disliked a dark skinned man and his heart was black enough to
please the “Most Fearful Oligarch”. The
“Most Fearful Oligarch” plied this weak, ignorant, and black hearted man with
gifts of money to save him from his own failures in life, and gifts of illicit
women to feed upon his licentious desires, and gifts of flattery to feed both
his vanity and his ignorance.
A time came, in the
recent past, when the “Most Fearful Oligarch” knew that he owned and controlled
the white skinned man with the coal black heart. It became the plan of the “Most Fearful
Oligarch” to also own and control Murakee and its people. He convinced the man with the coal black
heart, the small brain, and the overly large ego that he was qualified to be
chosen in the next referendum to decide the course of Murakee and its
people. The “Most Fearful Oligarch”
created a team of his minions who would spread wonderful lies about the dark hearted
man which told the citizens of Murakee that he was “the only one who could make
Murakee great again,” and that he was a
brilliant leader, and should be chosen in the referendum. When the referendum was completed, the “Most
Fearful Oligarch” had managed to convince a small portion of the citizens of
Murakee in three small principalities of the nation that the man with the black
heart was a suitable leader. These
people in the three deceived principalities of Murakee joined with those across
the country who hated the dark skinned man and his female vizier that the
referendum should choose the black hearted man as their leader instead of the
particularly wise female vizier who would have been the first female to ever
lead Murakee.
Soon after the referendum,
troubles began to arise and all of those troubles were rooted in the weakness
of the black hearted man and the evil desires of the “Most Fearful Oligarch”
who directed the actions of the black hearted man from afar since his many
gifts over the years had given him a total power over the black hearted man who
had benefitted from the stolen referendum.
The black hearted man and the people who hated the dark skinned man
joined together in what came to be called a cult and attempted to lead Murakee
into positions and places as black as their illegitimate leader’s heart. Soon the black hearted man allowed the “Most
Fearful Oligarch” to steal a secret listening post in the heartland of an area
sometimes referred to as the Eastern Abdomen where many allied countries of
Murakee were situated. The black hearted
man had come to believe that he was the real leader of Murakee and that he
could do anything he wished.
Then, without warning,
the gods of the little planet sent a plague upon Murakee and other countries on
the planet. The black hearted man told
the people that the plague was just a hoax and the work of his enemies who
wanted to stop him from “making Murakee great again”. The plague spread over the little planet and the
black hearted man did nothing, a task at which he was very accomplished. The plague spread and old men, old women,
young men, young women, children, and citizens of all ages began to sicken and
die all across Murakee. The black
hearted man denied the truths of the men and women in charge of the various
principalities in Murakee when they told him and the people that this plague,
like the plagues of Egypt, would sweep across the land unless the people went
into their houses and protected themselves in secret. Great shamans all across Murakee told the
people the truth about the plague and the black hearted man continued to deny
the plague was real and claimed it was still intended to deprive the people of
Murakee of the great joy of seeing him “make Murakee great again”. The people died from the plague and their
shamans who treated them died with them.
The plague spread from one principality to another until it swept the
entire little planet. It found its way
into the large cities and the country towns.
It found its way into the safe houses where the elderly and the aged
heroes of Murakee were cared for by their attendants. They and their attendants died from the
plague. They sat in their dwellings of
all kinds and watched the black hearted man do the bidding of the “Most Fearful
Oligarch” until the plague had won. This
fable of the plague upon Murakee has no moral.
It has only an ending which will
not be written because the writers will
have been victims of the plague also.
There will be no bards to sing the chantey of the plague since they will
have also died. The historians will not
write wise words on parchment scrolls about the plague since they, their ink
makers, their quill sellers, and their butchers who sold parchment for scrolls
will also be victims of the plague.
Murakee will be no more and the “Most Fearful Oligarch” will have won
and the black hearted man will learn that he is also a victim of the plague but
he will say it is all just a hoax.
Copyright 2020 by Roger
D. Hicks
