5 - A Summary ...

A Summary …

Based on Excerpt from My Recently Updated Résumé

This summary provides a glimpse into a sizable global problem that in all likelihood forms the single biggest impediment to our development process.  The solution mentioned is long-term and applicable to all nations, while what is suggested in the writings mentioned in the footnote is of immediate nature and specific to the Maldives.  (Please focus on the latter; this summary is only an overview.)  You'll find some more of my recent development-related writings on this blog. 

October 1997 – To-date

The direction of my thinking had changed following an insight of earthshaking proportions that I gained in 1997 and expanded and perfected since, and, coupled with my ongoing experience in our development setting, I had come to the conclusion that development efforts would be to a large extent in vain without overcoming, or at least minimizing, the massive ill effects of the problem underlying that insight.^***   As a result, my subsequent work had been directed towards that end.  The essence of that problem is that while our ability to understand the world and interact with others is dependant on the information bases in our brains, they are largely unique to each individual and, as a result, that there is no adequate common ground for people to smoothly interact among themselves for optimal, even satisfactory, societal functioning.  To make matters worse, people do not have a clue that such a problem even exists.  The ramifications of the problem would therefore have devastating impacts globally and make it arguably the worst enemy of human wellbeing.  The nature of this problem and a realistic albeit partial solution to it are explored in the writings on my blog aimed at international readers: www.rifatafeef.blogspot.com.  As explained there, this solution lies in a rather small but crucial improvement to the world education system, which necessitates both the awareness and the support of world academics / educators which are currently lacking.  (People cannot support a concept that they don't know exists.)  To help rectify this situation, the writings have been sent to some 35,000 of them in 103 universities in 22 nations in the core areas of education, philosophy, psychology, sociology, political science, and communication. 

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^***  For some details of the process of this transformation, please refer to the boxed account on post below labelled “4 - Rifat's Personal Mission” under the sub-title “The Evolution of My Thinking.”  For an elaboration on the central problem and what can be done about it right now in the context of the Maldives, see Part Three of the post below labelled  “2 - Positive Socio-Political Atmosphere.”  The account given in it is further elaborated in my (Dhivehi) pieces labelled “Majlis Letter One” and “Last Explanation,” which have not been uploaded to this blog yet, but given that the PDF prints of all my development-related writings have been emailed to several hundred people on my (local) mailing list, they would be already available to quite a number of Maldivians.