“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
― Immanuel Kant
This quote does not drive me philosophically to the personality of a human in relation to his or her perfection in terms of body, mind or spirit. Moreover it relates me to a situation where we all are becoming worms and our next generations will be reproduced as worms due to unplanned urbanization, unsustainable consumption of resources, havoc of pollution sources, exponential growth in population, deforestation and many other environmental concerns.
Don’t limit worms to small segmented or unsegmented creatures with no limbs and less developed nervous system. Modern man or furthermore evolved ultramodern man behaving as limbless minion crawling with a large cranium box is a noxious worm for an environment and is under the power of its own formation. Fulfilling the second half of the quote…………….. ‘People will step on him’.
Our own achievements of commanding environment are profusely taking a charge in the form of urban island heat, flash floods, vulnerability of species extinction, climate change, soil degradation and innumerably more. Apparently these charges are like people stepping on worms and eventually these worms created are aggressively ruined by their own creation.
Now a question which attacks us is!! WHO IS RESPONSIBLE and WHOM TO COMPLAIN??
Onus goes to all and none to complain……Look at the irony we established for ourselves in becoming worms and being damaged as-
“Worms driven by fossil fuel combustion,
Worms dependent on mechanization,
Oh! Worms at loss.
Worms eating inorganic fertilizers,
Worms killing trees,
Oh! Worms at loss.
Worms causing ocean acidification,
Worms growing population,
Oh! Worms at loss.
Though limbless worms dig for aeration but we as worms are becoming dangerous;
At last WE worms are at LOSS.