The motivation to begin this blog stemmed from a conversation with an accountant who is one of my resources. I had wanted her to confirm a tax fact for me. She did not know the answer, which surprised me. In my mind accountants were supposed to know more about tax than financial planners did. However, it was her attitude about the whole subject which surprised me more. She did not feel it was an important question that she would want to know the answer to. Her curiosity quotient was zero.
I started to pick up on this pattern in my own life as I noticed people commenting: “That’s a lot of questions” or “You ask a lot of questions.” In my professional life I must ask questions but now I was getting sensitive about asking them, as if questions were like bothersome mosquitos to be swatted away or squished.
As a society are we so preoccupied with the here and now that we let the bigger questions pass us by? Do we want to know anything more than that which will help us get through our day or week? Will we be able to maintain and advance our civilization without asking questions?
As the title indicates this is a soapbox full of rants. But the rants will be in question form. Hopefully some answers will be brought forth, in the quest to discover if meaningful curiosity is indeed dead.