Dubai has made the headlines again. Only this time it was negative news. Hardly a year ago, it was the city to rival Baghdad of the Arabian nights. But this time it fell to the syndrome of human folly, greed, aggression, and if I may say, madness driven by egoism.
This burst of the Dubai bubble brought me back to a mention of Dubai in my book “Good Fengshui Advice”. I plaster this below :
“Let us look at the construction of the city of Dubai and others of the Middle East. If taken from a strict fengshui perspective, it does not possess the features of a mountain dragon or a rich river delta. Some have gone to lengths to explain the growth of the city quoting the nooks and folds of the shoreline and that of the creek. These are debatable.
Maybe the answer to its rise to commercial prominence should be explained from a broader picture of the peninsula itself. The Bigger Trigram principle should provide some possible answers.
For now, it has built itself into a metropolis attracting people from all over the planet to work and do business there. This is again a true life story of the ‘maze-like weaved brocade principle’. The maze is formed by the flow of sea and air routes and the connections linked by the business empires that spreads and covers the globe.
It may be a forced way of creating this network but for the short term, the dynamism has been generated. However, how long and far this will reach is another story yet to unfold. There is the other aspect of the unseen vibration of the land and that of its people.”
I was then talking about the “weaved brocade” principle in township fengshui. In fact when I wrote this I was having in mind an earlier comment I made about Dubai.
News says that Dubai has incurred a debt of US$80 billion. If this means nothing, consider that 80% of the world’s tower cranes are in Dubai. But most are silent now, ground to a halt as stock markets round the world starts crumbling down.
Dubai suffers from vulgar hedonism. I feel for the thousands if not millions who see their dreams crumbled. Many from the Indian continent flocked there to seek a better life for their families back home. What happens to them now? A few days ago, I read that many had to flee when they did not get paid and the high cost of living makes staying on impossible. Imagine their despair.
