The Bridge – Formal
Notification to Authorities
The two articles on this blog related to the bridge
currently under construction, namely, posts titled “1 – Hulhumalé and the
Bridge” and “3 – Yameen and the Bridge,” along with the post titled “2 –
Positive Socio-Political Atmosphere,” had been sent to Mr Yameen in January
2014, to the President’s Office. The
envelop was addressed to his name (and not to the President of the Maldives)
which, according to custom, would render that he personally opens the
envelop.
As I mentioned at the end of the second boxed
piece in the post titled “4 – Rifat’s Personal Mission,” the
destructive process (generated
by inappropriate Government policies) will be irreversibly accelerated by the
farce of a bridge currently under construction, and its vastly negative impacts
will keep mounting exponentially over the years and decades to
come, and in all likelihood, will push the nation to the brink of collapse
– given that any factor that
negatively affects Malé will have a matching negative impact on the nation as a
whole. And given this, the inevitable
futility of any efforts to remedy the situation will effectively preclude any
of my future involvements with any Maldives governments.
If it is a consolation, the Maldives will not be the first nation that jeopardized its future by the stupidity of its ruling class and others who have a say about where it is headed – by their ignorance and refusal to listen to reason when pointed out by those who have better pertinent knowledge, and by their choice of self-interest over the longer-term wellbeing of the nation; human history is replete with such examples.
“Survival of the fittest” is not just a convenient cliché to spice-up conversations; it is an expression of the harsh reality of our existence on this planet. Thus societies that do no have the brains and willpower to understand the reality of their world and act decisively to the demands of that reality will perish.
If it is a consolation, the Maldives will not be the first nation that jeopardized its future by the stupidity of its ruling class and others who have a say about where it is headed – by their ignorance and refusal to listen to reason when pointed out by those who have better pertinent knowledge, and by their choice of self-interest over the longer-term wellbeing of the nation; human history is replete with such examples.
“Survival of the fittest” is not just a convenient cliché to spice-up conversations; it is an expression of the harsh reality of our existence on this planet. Thus societies that do no have the brains and willpower to understand the reality of their world and act decisively to the demands of that reality will perish.
