7 - The Bridge – Formal Notification

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. 

And below is the response (Answer to Private Individuals’ Letters) I received a few days later: 

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.