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Are we, all of us, just answers looking for questions?This question is inspired by a Q-Land post from Arsenic7 in answer to my question about whether it's harder to ask questions or to answer them. Probably Arsenic7 meant something else, but for me s/he raised the notion that we come here full of answers, looking for the question that will allow us to display our fullness of knowing, either as a peacock's tail of helpful information or a sparkling disco ball of smartass.
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I've always felt more like a question than an answer, if we all boil down to that binary.
I think we tend to provide more answers than questions because it is easier to regurgitate acquired knowledge than think in new directions. The whole peacock tail/disco ball thing is just human behavior on the internet.
When it comes down to our universal existential concerns, we are all questions looking for an answer.
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Probably true. As l've pointed out, my brain's a sieve, which means any useful or useless knowledge l might have l've probably already forgotten. As a result, when l see a question l know the answer to, l'm like that girl at trivia that goes, "OH! I KNOW THIS ONE!" and then blurts it out for all participants to hear. (lncidentally, this is why l rarely participate in trivia.) So when l *do* know the answer, it makes me feel a little smarter to impart that knowledge.
Of course, there are those questions that don't really have a right or wrong answer, in which case l'm most likely just engaging in mental masturbation, and hoping l might provide a nugget of helpful perspective.
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I am a Human Answer Book of Useless Factoids. I have very few questions, but I retain valueless knowledge for all eternity. I think it has to do with being Asperger's - I kind of perseverate on acquisition of data.
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