Friday 20 November 2009

Why is it that we ask so many questions?

Why is it that our simple little lives revolve around a simple little character.....?
Who invented this imaginative character? Who decided one day in their infinte wisdom that the question mark needed to be more aesthetically pleasing than the common folk of characters....the . or the !? How is it that such a pleasant little character, although mundane by name, can produce such wisdom and impart such a wide spanse of knowledge?
How many times does the average Joe use said character, whether articulated or written? How were we saved from the tangible interpretation of the question mark, a sufferance that the once attractive "inverted commas" have had to endure for many years? Can you imagine such an interprative action? How can we forget though, that this pretty little model of knowledge and curiosity does not translate to non-roman script? Do we presume that without a question mark, that such societies simply do not have this astounding curiosity that the 'mark' assigns to us? No?
How can any of us survive without the ability to ask, to request and to interrogate? How could we open the floodgates of democratic heaven? What would happen if organisations founded in societies that respect and acknowledge the 'question mark' took a vote on its relevance and left it flounder in its irrelevant beauty? What would happen if such organisations would not allow themselves to use the facility of the question? What if, even, they refused others to approach them with this facility of getting information? What would this possible organisation be called in a society that adorns and beholds this question mark?
Would it be called FIFA? Is there any reason why it wouldn't behold such a boring and unimaginative name? Could it be possible that such an organisation exists? Yes?
Could it be possible that in order to explain certain occurences in our ever-confused society that the previously celebrated question mark is a necessity? Would we all agree that it would be abhorent to deny the use of such a beautiful and respected facility in our otherwise articulate lives?
Yes?
Should we stop using it?
Should we straighten its edges and transform it to the similar mundaneness of its name?
Should it look like ! or . ?
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Or is it the assumption that a question requests some form of answer that is causing our problems? If it no longer existed would the answerable no longer be so?
What do you think?

1 comment:

  1. You can't help but sound Australian in your head when you read this! OR should I say read this? :-)

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