QUESTIONS
The right question could save the world.
You might say that answers are more important but it is the question that is the crux of the matter. In the question, is the answer. We are so quick today to look for the easy answers to anything that we do not realise that it is the question that is crucial. How can we go about properly solving a problem if we don't take the time and interest to fully research and understand it so we can adequately articulate how to formulate the right question to ask. I believe if we do, we will come to more satisfactory conclusions that actually deal with the issue instead of framing the questions so as to get a politically correct or culturally accepted response. Problem solving is about getting to the truth, the crux of the matter honestly and cleary; and then finding the right, not the expedient or popular or easy resolution of the problem. To raise questions is to disturb ourselves, force ourselves to look at the reality of the situation with open, unbiased eyes and let it fully penetrate our psyches so we can understand it's true context and our role and responsibility in the problem. And guess what; we are always culpable, involved and responsible as individual human beings. It is not someone else's problem; we can't rationalize or evade and we have to seriously realize we are all in on the problemand we are all needed for the solution. The beauty of this method when fully implemented is that it leaves the answers open and fresh rather than using the usual method of presupposing the solution in advance to relieve our anxiety. As it is said: you are either part of the problem or part of the solution, and we are the problem. So we had better recognize that fact and get on with it and become the solution. We need to create a book of questions, a compendium of all the queries that define our lives, an atlas of riddles that need to be mapped and revealed.
