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                                    "Curiosity Killed the Cat and the Cat Killed Curiosity"                by JlB

Throughout my life whenever someone would advance towards me and “quick-wittedly” (or mindlessly) repeat the cliché, “Curiosity killed the cat.” The philosopher within me would quickly respond, “Yes, but if the death of one cat could stop the countless slaughtering of thousands of others—I would be that cat.” This is no longer true, however. 

Now I respond to the aforementioned by saying, “But, the death of that cat has frightened the majority of the people; now they do not actively pursue thought, learning or curiosity. Instead they are domesticated, scared and stupid (or merely unenlightened, at the least). I, then, strengthen that statement by reiterating that I am not victim to this belief. Alive and happy, I’ve been curious about everything from light sockets to fast moving cars-- the only thing that died was the curiosity itself as this was replaced by knowledge. 
 Curiosity asks questions, curiosity establishes growth; Curiosity is the name of the desire to know. Knowing is deadly because it takes power away from those who know. So curiosity in common-people is to be suppressed by those in control. 

As Adolf Hitler said, “What luck for rulers that men do not think.”

Succinctly, if you teach a student a lesson for a day, he will learn the lesson for a day; if you teach a student how to learn through curiosity, he will learn for a lifetime. His quest for thought will lead him to peer into hell and not be afraid; it will lead him to the desert to analyze sand to know what it’s made of; it will lead him to the arctic to study ice to find out what’s in it. It will not lead him to death, however, unless it was the curiosity of death that drove him there. 

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(part II) “The Death of Curiosity”   
06.01.08

Potentially, a group of conspirators have been attempting to murder a part of your mind. 

You should be a little curious about this, but you’re probably not. That’s because your curiosity's death is already in its happening. Basically, it’s as if your mind has a cancer that afflicts your brain's center for curiosity. The constantly evolving cancer— that is, the power that is out of your control— will grow with time and eventually overcome you. Although it will not kill you, it will most-definitely tame you in the truest possible sense of the term. There is no doubt; you will undergo domestication until the powers that run daily-life in your world can manipulate your thoughts and then ultimately shut them off.

This is the death of curiosity. 

The molding of our minds has been taking place ever since we first started thinking above each other back in primitive times.This is because when some of us humans first started educating others, the power that was automatically imbued into the teacher was enough to warrant the attempted murdering of curiosity. Because then, the more we allowed our minds to be molded is the less actual 'thought' that humans would ever exhibit— which, in turn, is the more power that those in control maintain to suppress the populus. This concept can be described by an example in history because it is similar to how the Church in archaic times wouldn’t allow people to read the Bible (so they could mercilessly tax citizens since nobody could question why they were being taxed).

 In present day, the people who do the most curiosity-killing and mind-molding are the people who value self-interest over most anything else. This includes a majority of: politicians, corporate entities, and essentially anyone (company, person or organization) that saturates the minds of the common man with clichés that preclude actual thought because they (the clichés) are so easily repeated that the concept of thought becomes a task that the common man simply does not want to bear.

So the death of your curiosity means that you will not stir dissent in yourself or others by asking one simple, deadly, question, which is, “Why?” 

Prepare to be duped by all powers that be, but don't prepare to ask why, because remember my friends-- Curiosity killed the cat.

by JlB

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