"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Douglas Adams

"Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked."

"All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.