The Daily Question is an almost daily quick question to keep in mind and consider during the day. When you are presented a question of deep importance, you use your brain in a different way, a more critical way. When we develop critical thinking we become a more independent, knowledgeable, and diverse person. To start to develop some of these skills, read the Daily Question and keep them in mind.

For the nondemocratic nations reading this question will be especially interesting, but this is mostly geared for United States citizens. In America, our government is disorganized, overwhelmed in laws and rights, and is flawed in so many other ways. Some of these are attributes of a large, powerful society, but others are simply misinterpreted rules and regulations from the old democracy.It is no question the founding fathers did not intend our system of government to work quite this way, but modern ideas have spread quickly through rules made for the eighteenth century. Some of this modernism has left a positive effect, others good intentions, but conflict with antique democracy. When the Greeks formed the first formal democratic society it was very different from even the democracy of Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and others. So without going in to detail, I ask should we rewrite democracy to fit modern theories? Also do we need to start ground up, or is a refresh all that is necessary?

I will initiate this post by stating, “I am still in a deep meditation on the subject of this post.” My goal in this writing is to provoke some of the readers to contribute to this with different opinions and views. I consider myself an infant of knowledge in this subject and only wish to bring my point of view to the table.

What are some of the things human beings have an obsession over? On a primitive level we obsess over: matching our image to that of the surrounding populous, discovering the past events that elapsed into the future, injecting our minds with physical effects that have a representation of enjoyment, and other such similar events. Obviously, the essence of this post is the discovering of past events that elapsed into the future observance.

The average human has a pertinacious quest to discover all possible information, within reason of ability, about themselves and those with whom they closely interact. Then you see the abnormal personality, the desire to discover all there is to know about the history of a region, date, and culture, and from time to time an individual has the goal to understand the whole of history. Of course, all of history is not on record, nor do I think it ever will be. Still, human kind pushes on to discover knowledge of previous events. Forget not the other forms of history we commonly seek, most notably the history of science. As an example the CERN Large Hadron Collider an estimated 6.4 billion project. Whatever it is we are studying that involves our history and culture; we never truly give up in our search, thus making it one of the most influential and exasperating quest for knowledge.

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