II. Engineer - Built It In Order To Destroy Family
II. Engineer
Was Engineer a crusader? Did he hear the voice of God who commanded him to build the sewage? No. Was he abused by his family members as he grew up? No. Did he take up a certain ideology that convinced him to start the project? He certainly studied different philosophies, in particular, political philosophies, but he did not blindly follow any particular philosophy. Those who believed that he was their friend, his acquaintances and all other who knew him presume that he took on the project as a capable engineer who should step up and do so.
Engineer was born and grew up in the city; he was from a modestly affluent family. He studied Civil Engineering at the most prestigious university in the country and later obtained Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering overseas. He came back partly because he faced difficulty finding a job there and partly because he optimistically believed that his country was on the verge of the greatest transformation in her history.
Upon his return, he immediately started getting involved in the development of the metro train system, probably the biggest engineering project in the city at that time. Later, he set up his own engineering consulting firm. However, he overworked upon starting the business; he also faced a number of administrative problems unanticipated and they stressed him greatly. He suffered the nervous breakdown as a result, and he ended up being forced to take some time off. During the time off, he decided to take on the project of the construction of the new sewage.
He did not suddenly come to realize that the stifling family structure needed to be destroyed. What he saw and experienced overseas enabled him to acquire objectivity, and that objectivity allowed him to analyze the current state of the city. The analysis convinced him that the family ought to be destroyed, and in order to do that, he needed to build the new sewage. He knew this for some time; he certainly knew before he set up his own engineering firm. It was simply that he hoped that someone else would take care of it instead. He probably knew that no one was going to work on the monumental project, however, and during the time off, he finally made up his mind.
The catastrophically poor quality of the current sewage system was so apparent; there were Cholera epidemics that claimed thousands of lives in the recently history of the city. Even when there was no epidemic, hundreds of lives were lost due to the disease every year, though this did not make news headlines. Albeit rather difficult to believe, reports were in fact from 21st century: Cholera was very much alive in the city. He went over related reports while he rested. Of course, he did not have to read reports produced by the government and international aid organizations to realize that this was just a proverbial tip of iceberg. But it was rather arduous for him to study numbers, as they did not lie or manipulate; they awakened his sense of reality, and his awakened sense nauseated him. As he walked around the city, he could not distinguish drainages and sewages; they both looked the same. Piled up garbage blocked them all; they looked like open deposits of toxic waste permeating toxic smell and bleeding pestilent insects genetically enhanced by it. From time to time, garbage was removed, but he could guess that contaminated poisonous water flew directly into wherever the next destination was, untreated.
Upon returning to work, he started building a political connection and soon did he become an assistant surveyor for Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, a municipal government’s office; he despised the bribe, the looting by the government, but he had be practical in order to reach his goal. Immediately after that, he became an engineer of the commission. Throughout this time, practically nothing to improve the sewage system was done. He was not surprised and he simply acted effectually; he kept patience. Then, he eventually became the chief engineer of the commission and this was when he proposed to revolutionize the city’s sewage system, and finally, the actual plan to construct the sewage was begun to be drawn.
