XII. Transformation - Built It In Order To Destroy Family
XII. Transformation
Water will transform the city. Engineer was convinced; he was also convinced that, without it, the city will never leave its cannibalism society as a part of its history. As he completes the project, it will gradually diminish slums; they will remain as slums, but they will not be the same waste-disposal slums that he sees today. In time, families will be destroyed, and in time, people will understand meanings of words such ‘privacy’, ‘individualism’ and ‘independence’. Human dynamics and creativity will be given birth, and when it happens, the city will embrace its salvation. The construction of the sewage system is not a charity. It is not a gift, either. He will complete the project to prove that human is a deserving specie, and more importantly, to prove that he is one of selected number of members of the specie who are here to make progress. He did not despise charities presumably established for the good of the underprivileged. If there were those who found fulfillment in engaging in charitable activities, he just let them do. But what he was going to take on was not a charity. It was for him to destroy the repression, the social disease or the ill condition, in order to make the city a bearable place to live. For the invigorative destruction, he was going to built it. The world could only be salvaged by those who were driven by their self-interests and understood that their pursuit of those interests coincidentally served the underprivileged, the poor, the commoners and the proletariats. Engineer was one of them.
