60 years ago. Saudi Arabia was barren desert. Nothing is safe, Bandits roamed the roads and human life was cheap. 60 years ago a tribe would go to war with another tribe over a disputed well of water. 60 years ago only 5% of the country knew how to read and write let alone know what a university is. 60 years ago many Saudi people would die for lack of food and water. 60 years ago a Saudi would go to work in Sham or Africa just so he can someday return to his family with enough money to buy food. 60 years ago Saudis bought and sold slaves across the country. 60 years ago the idea of a city and a civilized society was so far fetched that the mere thought of it would get you called by others as insane. This has been going on for more than a thousand years. Central Arabia in particular was the forgotten part of the Islamic world it was treated that it didn't even exist in geography.
Now. We have Oil, The least likely people in the world and by far the one's who need it the most in the world and maybe as a reward for being kept out of civilization for so long and was literally left to rot by the rest of the world. As all people who were once extremely poor and then suddenly came with a huge inheritances we spent it. We didn't know how did we get but we just wanted everything that we wished for. Water, Cars, A HOUSE, everything we went to see it through the like of shopping windows but the only thing you could do was dream you had. Suddenly it hit us. Our inheritance is not infinite, one day we might get back into the sorry state we were. Forgotten poor and neglected by the world.
As the reality shock came to us like an electrical discharge we realized that we as people must invest this inheritance. This money will not stay here forever and like a once poor man who sat alone at night reflecting on his past we decided: We will build and Industry that is the envy of the rest of the world, We will become what others thought once upon a time we can never do. We will become civilized.
Right now Saudi Arabia is undergoing an industrial revolution. The most competitive economy in the region and THE place to invest in the Middle East surpassing all expectations. Right now we can graduate our own doctors, engineers and scientists. We have an ambition. This ambition is simply "We will not go back to what we were".