Why do we just accept things as we perceive them? Socrates asserted that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Ordinary people use smartphones, tablets and laptops to access search engines hoping that they will provide the answers to the questions they have. I can't help but think that we have lost the art of questioning. and exploration. Search engines can provide answers to mundane questions, but they only provide easy answers. Studying philosophy and politics will help me seek the answers to the big questions of this life. Wittgenstein's “Philosophical Investigations” completely open, twisted. and reshaped my perception of language and its relationship to understanding, much, I suppose, like his own philosophical position. Aside from his logical approach to language analysis, remark 464 sums up why I am drawn to him as a thinker; can write “treat me to sugar” in a major philosophical work is certainly the man for me. Wittgenstein's work sparked my interests in mind, language and logic! topics I hope to study in gr...