Why(?) is one of those questions that we adults smile and chuckle at, joking to one another about the endless barrage of meaningless chatter that two year olds are capable of.

Why? Why? Why?

Why(?) is also one of those questions that are typically very difficult to answer. It implies purpose, something many don’t consider. Sometimes there are no answers to the question, why?  And because it often has no clear answer, or answers that we do not necessarily want, it is an uncomfortable question.

History is full of why questions, but history often cannot answer them because history is not a static art and cannot read the minds of those that have established historical facts (read Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari for more on that).  Science does not consider why, but only how, but it often changes the answers that we believe are true to those why questions that we have asked.

And philosophy, the great approach to the why question analyzes and postulates with more questions, driving us from our comfort to the unstable heights of insecurity and Truth, the illusive concept.

So why ask such questions?

It is simple.  Because when we human beings cease and desist, when we turn our backs on curiosity, we cease to be people and become a mere species.  We are no doubt a cog in the evolutionary machine, but one that can perceive of its role and perhaps change its future without destroying the machine.

Ask why and find out where it can lead you.