Only one question
I see the society as being deeply sank in an illusion - something that is weaved with only mental strands, but has stronger impact than walls of a fortress. I write on this massive mental illusion a bit below. If I had only one question to ask, or only one thing to write on the forum, it'd be this:
the properly asked question is essential to find right answers; to ask: what is the right question, rather than what is the current answer.
(If you asked a worm about its perspective on the universe, it'd tell you about terrifying flying monsters as big as a bee, enormously big columns vanishing somewhere in the heaven - trees, and the universe itself built of smaller but still very large universes i.e. meadows... and its decisions are made upon its instinctive knowledge; now compare an average human being on this small planet to this worm who always does the same things everyday, the difference is not that big - they both know the answer, or at least they act like that, you might conclude if you were an alien visiting the Earth).
We live in the world of experts, gurus etc. They all have answers because its their job to have them - not necessarily right answers, but they're not paid for asking questions, they have to have prepared answers for their audiences. The general tendency is to treat people, like philosophers, who tend to ask questions rather than forming ultimate answers, at best as unneeded in reality. Also no one expects from scientists today asking questions but rather telling laymen "how things are".
The overall mental program for masses is to have answers, solutions, life recipes, formulas, "how to" algorithms etc. Imagine that you go to a book store looking for diet recipes and find two books on a shelf: "Best healthy recipes for busy people" (so busy that they even have no time to think) and "Reflections about the busy-ness of the world and their poor solutions (recipes)" :) You go to a book store because you look for the answers. (BTW I just started writing the latter, wondering how many publishers would kill to have a contract with me :) ).
No one would pay (not just with money, but with their time, effort etc.) for questions, so in eyes of a laymen it's the job of boring scientists, like A. Einstein (who insisted on the proper forming question before looking for answers), to wonder how the world is actually built? and then telling them: "it's like that!".
"Don't bother me with your questions, what's the answer" is an unspoken judgement hanging somewhere in the air when a scientist or a researcher stands in front of the crowd. :)
The good thing is that we can collect answers in many, many ways, not even forming the ultimate question, there is an infinite number of, sometimes very unusual, ways of "forming" a "question", and the universe must response - IMO the key is to be aware of what is going around us. They're not ultimate answers, but they're facts about the reality - and the quality and the value of this information depends on... the mind state of the observer. (So, it's the mind itself which should be also the subject of inquiry whenever the answer OR question if being formed).
The mind is tricky, it can delude itself, and it does. My idea is to go beyond that, the delusion, i.e. to realize the barriers that we impose on ourselves.
