The Relevancy Of Aristotle Within The 21st Century

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

Said quote attributed to Aristotle,
stands the test of time,
and not only did out last
many another aphorism,

but most any learned person,
would agree proverb cast
greater relevancy today,
whereby bajillion minutiae doth blast

and bombard relentlessly tenured
academician, or lay person till aghast
now (i.e. the 21st
century in general), with fast

and furious incessant information explosion,
more so than 384–322 BC,
yet his nestled (chocolated),
pronounced, revered, vast

paradigm touted as ever last
ting influence still
vibrant approximately hast
encompassed two and

a half millenniums past.
Hash tagged the
"Father of Western Philosophy" -
imagine us slew

of avid admirers
lurching back and forth
(in conjunction with the
pitched cadenced lilt of Plato),

say...by a playa in Kalamazoo
Michigan feted for, he warrants a kazoo
blown, who embraced forward doo
wop thinking spanned a gamut,

where more'n few
adherents or immediate disciplines
refining (and redefining),
which amassed breathless

comprehension aligned hitherto
an expanse of disparate subjects
sewn (no needling,
asper this feeble pun)

to constitute an interrelated web,
whereat convenience allotted
quasi distinct abstract queue
(preceding his sue bare rue

legacy) consigned his
innate person to integrate
(by syllogisms he drew)
correcting antiquated inaccuracies,

and aligned a groovy,
wheel lee, and well tread
modernist twist (and shout),
sans permeating Air Supply

Bestie Boys, Beatlemania,
Cold Play ying
musically noteworthy, loo
pea pod casts, and even spurring

Beethoven to roll over,
while dee composing
(sans my zany brainy adherence
to "FAKE" information I eschew)

and essentially single handedly grew
the contemporary paradigm few
off fish shill educated
people didst swallow

hook, line and sinker, but perhaps
an enlightened gentile and/or Jew
found credulity linkedin with the then
far reaching somewhat sunnily

revolutionary antithetical concepts only
gull lib bull and/or cuckoo,
despite the logically
substantiated veritable true

lee near custom fit, hunky
dory, integrated metaphorical
interlocking puzzling pieces
rightly anchoring vast vista

(realm of known knowledge,
viz apple pi order)
shipshape motley crue foo
fighting banded divers lee distinct

whirled wide webbing
did not experience
smooth semantic sailing,
and rather recently

(historically "speaking") Renaissance
exuded approbation, and found substantial
adherents among cognoscenti,
who took to heart as gospel truth,

the expansive database
apropos christened Aristotélēs translated
to mean Superior; best of thinkers,
whose missives dissected, inspected,

and probed for ethical, philosophical,
and rhetorical handy
dandy blues clue
meriting nascent outlook, sans salient

rubric quintessential pointing cue,
analogous to eternal spirit hovering,
guiding, and favoring new
acolyte, or stalwart

diehard Aristotelian hew
wing painstakingly, thru
prodigious tomes binding
ancient (classical Greece) via

Aristotelianism super glue
rebranded within modern roam'n Times
Font 12 visa vis,
when re: discovered
anew by Martin Heidegger
Ayn Rand, and Alasdair MacIntyre.