Questions?

So one thing that I like to think about is what actual rational people would say if they were around during certain events and subsequently what other people said to convince them that these things were a good idea.For instance, a few weeks ago, Abi and I were looking through an issue of National Geographic and we saw an article about geoglyphs in South America (picture shown below)

I mean, the things are cool, but look at the size of these things. Unless they happen to be built next to a cliff or a really steep mountain or something there really isn't a way to ever see the things. They're not like crop circles or anything. A lot of these things don't even get noticed until someone flies over the thing in an airplane. Which begs a few questions. How did these people know what they were even making and how did they get the man power necessary to pull this off all lined up? I kind of imagine a conversation along these lines:
- Man, what are we even doing?
- How many times do I have to tell you? We're making a giant freaking monkey in the ground miles in diameter.
- ... Alright... Why?
- Do you need a reason? It's a giant freaking monkey.
- Well all I'm saying is that this seems like an awful lot of work. Who's even paying for this?
- Don't worry about that, it's taken care of.
- Is anyone even going to notice this?
- ... Birds...
- ... Birds?
- Dude, it's going to be sweet! We're going to freak the heck out of these birds!
- What? We're going to freak out birds?
- It's going to be rad!
- How did you even come up with this?!
- ... You know what, the Gods told me to do this... Yeah, they'll be pissed if you don't help out...

And then everyone did it because everyone was really cautious of pissing off the Gods back in the day.

Anyway, this kind of got me thinking. If people would just stop and ask rational questions every now and again, a lot of pointless and often stupid situations would be avoided. Like if anyone ever asked any Scion owner "Are you sure you want to drive that car? It looks retarded and kind of makes you a douchebag by association." then perhaps there wouldn't be so many boxes on the road today (this same principle applies to the PT Cruiser). Or maybe something like "Will I. Am. are you sure that another Black Eyed Peas album is a good idea?". Or "Do you think that the world really needs another movie about a though New York high school couple who fall in love after discovering that they share the same passion for dancing?" (the answer to that is no). All I'm saying is that we as the human race would miss out on an amazing amount of trouble and heart break if we just stop and ask ourselves "Will people make fun of this later?"