A critique of Western philosophy, circa 1904 - 2007, in the form of a poem. Comments?

Need For Lacuna

No philosophy is sufficiemt

To deal with the problems of the modern

Day: so they, jaded or dazed, would say meant

No philosophy were needed by them

When what, and palpably, were needed were

A summary effort, execution

If you will, of the has-been, and then more

Strenuous, and appropriate, action

Be ta’en in light of modern requirements,

Such as going beyond the mechanics

Of Newton and God to the dynamics

Of Einstein and Man; also, uncertainties

Of Pauli and Heisenberg and a past

Done and gone. But they went wrong: will, at last,

They go right, to Relativity at

Least, which be certainly truthful if not

A TOE, which be not,

As Gödel clearly stated, and Hawkings,

Belatedly, admits is overrated by

Intelligence which overestimated “Why?”

And “How?”, and now underestimates We

Who, all too clearly, be coming to see a need for.

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0: An extended sonnet, from the Shakespearean to

an increasingly uncertain, if not totally irregular, form.

1: TOE – Theory Of Everything. “No such animal exists.”,

as Churchill famously said (I am uncertain it was him).

2: Regarding Gödel’s Theorem, “Gödel, Escher, Bach”

by Douglas Hoffstadter is well-worthy of recommendation.

3: Newton conceived of the Universe as mechanical and

ultimately predictable, a secular teleologistic.

4: Einstein famously said he did not believe God played with

dice. He made no mention of human beings.

5: Of Pauli, Heisenberg and Stephen Hawkings, it is left to the

reader’s initiative to find reference thereto.