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> This is because most people are not inquisitive by nature, they generally take things at face value without questioning why.

I have to disagree with this statement. Almost all people that I meet, pretty much across all group boundaries you can imagine, I find to be inquisitive. Very inquisitive in fact.

What I think you may be observing is that the depths of questions that many are interested in aren't great... gossip magazines, for example serve to give answers to an inquisitive populous, we can question the value of such questions, but that is still a drive to know something.

Also, I find that when people do ask deeper questions they can be simply overwhelmed by the answers. I'm not particularly good at mathematics, but often times work with people that are in the very top tier in that realm: I will ask certain questions for which I'm simply not prepared to hear the answer... the answer requires background that I simply don't have... I am genuinely interested, but the required prep work is simply out of the question. One could argue that the answers can be simplified as well, but that's not always true.