Why Not More Often?

We all play Sherlock Holmes sometimes.

Why only sometimes? Why not more often? By playing Sherlock Holmes we discover things on our own, without being told. Surely it is more fun to live this way.

Moreover, things we discover by ourselves we don't forget.

Why don't we play Sherlock Holmes more often? We all have the ability; we all have broken at least one cipher; we are all--like Sherlock Holmes--codebreakers.

To answer our question we need only look back each to our own history. Once we have learned our first language, how is it used for by our elders, people who have only the kindest of intentions where our welfare is concerned?

It is used to tell us what to do and what to believe.