Why do we ask?

Since we are small, human beings are great generators of questions and, as we grow, our eagerness to find answers does not stop. And that eagerness is what leads us to generate questions.

What is an answer?

It is the satisfaction of a demand, something that we are going to look for. Something we want to reassure us,

There are two types of responses:

A) Closing Answers: Answers that have no possible digression. For example: What time is it?.

B) Existential Responses: those that allow you to exist. As you ask yourself, you will answer them.

Do we have to find answers to everything?

Children are great questioners. The child seeks that existential responses become closing responses.

Children are never satisfied with the answer, hence they chain questions.

This process of infantilization is enormously significant in our time. One answer for all or one answer may not be necessary.

For example: Why is it so hard for us to believe what politicians tell us?? Your answers are no answers. Because they do not satisfy the public, hence the general discontent, and because they do not clarify or pretend to clarify. That is, the background never wants to be clarified.

Here is the figure of the Expert, increasingly noticeable in our society. It seems that we have the constant need for an expert to solve everything for us. Somehow makes us feel insecure and raises that point that maybe we don't know as much as we think we know, nor are we as smart as we think we are.

We need more and more of that specialist of good living, to help us to be happy, or to be more positive in our life. It is as if we have lost the foundations of our life. We do not realize that the answers are obtained by us based on the trace that our questions leave.

From a psychological point of view, people went to their therapist to talk, generating questions, but within an enlightening dialogue. Now, if the answer is not complacent, the dialogue becomes tablet. There is a biochemical problem and the answer is a pill, without resorting to that dialogue.

From an educational point of view, students no longer generate so many questions. This has to do with how we identify with the questions or the answers. As if the questions expose ignorance, hiding ourselves in answers that are not ours.

Thanks to this infantilization process, a multitude of "Schools" are emerging. That in many of them there is a real economic business.

Another professional today is the tertullian.

Whenever there is an answer, where do you go to find it?

In one's own practice, in one's own actions. In the feeling of an incomplete being. In friends, family, Internet, social networks, they are different forms of existence, so that each one will see which is the best for them

Does it make us more cultured to have answers?

What does not make us more cultured is not having questions.