Some people interpret healthy curiosity as rebellion. Others all too willingly attempt to mistake their blind infantile rebellion for genius. The latter condition is tempting because one doesn't need a mentality of quality to qualify as genius, only primitive anger is sufficient. We have an undoubted confidence in reality as children, which most of us carry through adulthood if we don't get entangled in the word games of philosophy or liberalism. If you asked a 10 year old whether he'd jump off the edge of a cliff he'd tell you you're nuts because he assumes both of you know he'd fall and be killed.
Reality becomes an assumption.
It's not a bad idea to continue that undoubted confidence. Don't ask an educated deconstructed liberal whether he'd jump off a cliff because you are apt to get an hour-long harangue referencing every philosophical school for the last 500 years, punctuated by assertions that only simplistic right wing primitives believe the question to be simple. Unlike the 10 year old, the deconstructed liberal assumes you know nothing, but he knows everything, except whatever he knows is doubtful whenever he thinks it's doubtful. It strikes me here that what I am doing is violating one of my own rules. That rule is never get involved in somebody else's craziness or stupidity.