I used to feel the way you do, but I have decided it is a communications error on my part. People who ask questions like that are communicating a message I don't understand, and I think it is not just their fault but mine also for not understanding. I was watching a corny old Tarzan movie and the drums were sending a message, a native in the hut came out and said "they are sending a message for "some name" but I do not know the person". So I got curious and looked up what type of messages can be sent by drums...the constitution, the grocery list...help? Well, it appears almost every person in the tribe had a drum name and could recognize it when signaled. But the messages that were sent were very limited indeed, and were to me more of a code. It was very bizarre, it was more like a set phrases that had meaning attached that were not very obvious sometimes. So I think their questions have meaning but we are not familiar with the language. .reading the drums is a dying art, and maybe reading dumb questions is also.
