People who hate questions
I’ve always known that there was a certain — and most assuredly, unreasonable — offense in asking questions. Not so much that the question itself was bad. I certainly don’t want to say that at all, there is much good in questions–much to learn. Socrates, I think, was right for the most part, “the unexamined life is not worth living”. And it is here that we find our problem, and also the answer to why so many people find questions offensive: they don’t examine anything, least of all “their life”. I’ve come across a great majority of people who don’t know why they believe what they say they believe. They’ve never considered the “great questions” (I don’t think many moderns do) and if they do, they don’t get very far. They spend far too much time reading recent books filled with pop-psychology and second-rate philosophical discourses (if you can even … (Read more)
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