CAMA College Handbook of Futures Studies and Strategic Investment

"In an era marked by rapid information dissemination, digital echo chambers, and contested epistemologies, the responsibility to question answers rigorously assumes heightened urgency. Intellectual passivity invites uncritical acceptance of dogma, misinformation, and propaganda, imperiling evidence-based policy and innovation.
Therefore, the virtue of questioning is intertwined with ethical responsibilities-to oneself, to one's discipline, and to society at large-underscoring the inseparability of intellectual rigor from democratic resilience and social progress. By embracing this vocation of perpetual inquiry and critical reflection, readers affirm an intellectual ethos that safeguards the quest for truth against complacency, nurtures adaptive knowledge in uncertain environments, and elevates scholarship and practice to their highest potentials.
This ethos should be embraced not as an optional skill but as an indispensable moral and intellectual discipline, an unconditional virtue that undergirds the very essence of scholarly excellence and informed humanity."