A Curious Constitution?

What is a people, and how potent are the

politics of defining them? How can a
state be equitably outlined in a
document of words?
Are we not, as humans, endowed with a
highly honed faculty for inquisition?
Can we, at this moment in our human
becoming, finally own up to our innate
propensity for asking questions? for
being curious?
If we are to seek a Union, might there
be stronger foundations in our common
questions, rather than our ideal
statements? If we are to establish a
home for Justice, is it not first
necessary to interrogate the conditions
that enable such moral and ethical
judgements in the name of civility?
If we seek Tranquility, should we not
first question the dynamics of
turbulence, the kinetics of disruption?
Don't the call for peace, and the
construction of defense stand in
contradiction to one another? Might we
first seek to question the causes of
violence, and ask how can we help there?
If we are to state the there are
commonalities under which a people might
be protected, is not our common call to
curiosity as fundamental a need as any
other? If the general welfare is to be
guarded, do we not all fair better when
extended the freedom to discover our
sources of personal well being? How
might we safeguard such freedoms and
rights? What queries constitute our
essential curiosity?
Why?
Why is "why" such a powerful question?
Why can it be unsettling if it's asked
often and somewhat repetitively? Why is
there power in a statement of beliefs?
Why does power exist, and why is it
rewarded? Why do we search for meaning?
Why do we look for causation? Why does
the curious mind continue to dig deeper,
past the point of reasonable
explanation? Why is the search for a
truth, no matter how partial, so valued?
Why is it truth, and not the search,
that seems so often rewarded? Why does
merit often stem from being able to

answer, not from having the courage to

ask? Why do societies, among other
inventions, stem from answers, as
opposed to the act of asking questions?
What if?
What if there were no consciousness or
imagination? What if we could rely on
the right to question everything's space
of possibility? What if curiosity were a
valued like family, friendship, or
freedom? What if it were considered an
inalienable human right? What if we
weren't allowed to ask? What if
contemplation were stymied? What if it
already is? What if "what if" questions
were granted
How?
How does curiosity frequent our daily
actions? How can we lend the curious the
conditions under which to flourish? How
might society look if curiosity came to
define the machinations and systems on
which it is dependent? How can the
predilection to ask be supported and
strengthened? How can we move away from
statements about what is, towards
questions about what might be? How much
is left to learn, that might be unlocked
by a curiously constituted peoples,
striving to understand the deeper
relationships of which they are a part?
When?
When do we decide to stop asking? When
are we encouraged to start again? When
is a mechanical definition more
appropriate than a lived one? When might
our curiosity be quenched? When might
the time come, when we have no need for
time? If time relies on relationships,
when are we allowed to ask them how they
feel about it?
Where?
What first? What next?