I've just finished reading Mark Kurlansky's book What?, subtitled Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History? It is a short book of questions - literally, for every sentence (bar the last) takes the form of a question.
Kurlansky's aim is to get people to ask more questions, and I fully support his quest. Too few people ask too few questions. If we lived in a world where more questions were asked, perhaps we would not take so many things for granted. Or perhaps we would be driven mad by the lack of answers. In any case, it is only through questions that we can discover: how much we do or do not know, how much we want to know, what we are, who we are, even why we are. It is an essential part of our development - as individuals, as humans - to ask questions. People who don't question are stagnating. A world that is not being questioned is standing still.
So question. Question everything. Question yourself, and others. How? That is up to you...
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