Shownotes
Don't question your parents. Don't question your teacher. Don't question the police. Don't question the doctor. Don't question the Pastor. We were taught from the beginning that authority figures know everything and questioning them is disrespectful. Then that pattern bled into every other area of life. The child who asks why gets fussed at and associates asking questions with getting in trouble. The student who raises their hand gets laughed at by peers. By the time you're an adult you've been trained to accept whatever you're told. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. The people who don't want you asking questions are usually the ones whose inconsistencies your questions would expose.
Takeaways:
- We are programmed from childhood not to question authority — and that programming covers parents teachers police doctors and pastors
- When children get fussed at for asking questions they associate curiosity with punishment — and stop asking
- Peer pressure in school enforces the same lesson — asking questions makes you the outcast
- Socrates established that asking deep questions before accepting ideas is essential to a life worth living
- People who don't want to be questioned usually can't answer the questions — and they know it
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