As a matter of fact...

"Curiosity killed the cat" some say. Others continue "but the cat had seven lives". I have a question:

Is curiosity a sign of wits or it is just a constant annoying ability/quality some people have or would like to possess? I have been watching some TV lately and I noticed people are very much interested in all sorts of facts, the most attractive ones seem to be mysteries (undiscovered or secret facts), then crimes or paranormal activities  (especially because they are hidden and after many years someone is ready to tell the truth). I could also notice the way some TV shows attract more and more audience just by being as dirty, as violent, as mean and as stupid as possible. If those shows have the label of reality show or real life based stories  they break all rating records. And this vicious circle keeps on rolling: the more audience they get, the more they broadcast and that's the way everything goes.
 I do miss interesting stuff on TV. I miss watching an entertainment show without seeing some retarded people invited there, manipulated and made fun of just for the pleasure of others. I miss watching a talk-show     where the participants/politicians do want to send a message, maybe talk about future plans, ideas and solutions and stop coming there just to attack the other with total lack of respect, show their muscles as if by feeling the force (like in Star Wars) the electors will appreciate them and, of course, vote for their brains.I do miss  hearing a piece of advice based on real facts, maybe real researches, not on excessively motivational messages that have, indeed, overrun all other form of knowledge. There is life besides motivational books. I have nothing against those type of messages, they can be quite helpful sometimes. But not in all aspects of life, not in every little situation and not written by semi-educated people who pretend to have great life experience or even possess some special powers.I had the chance to hear a few enlightened orators and I need to admit they couldn't really convince me. And what I hate the most is that these orators just take advantage of the human misery and lack of hope, people's despair in search for some sense and balance in their life. The answers are in the real facts about life, the great books, the great scientists, writers or philosophers who spent their life searching and analyzing all these aspects; they should be the first-hand knowledge base. Let's just think of Chekhov, Einstein, Kant, Homer, Plato and so many others. If you ask me, we should all start reading motivational books only after we would have gone through at least 20 % of these writings.
Anyways I miss quality information on TV. Of course you will all say there is Discovery Channel, History Channel, Nature Channel, Discovery Science and so on. I agree.But the problem is there are still more shows that explore the flaws and misery and need of exceptional that shapes somehow the human nature. And even if there is Internet, books, other means of acquiring information, TV still has the upper hand.
And we come back to curiosity. Can we learn how to use this quality into our benefit? Is there an easy way to learn about amazing facts that are appealing just by the information they consist of? How do we separate spectacular from really useful? That's intriguing.
If we spend some time watching children at play, we will see that,when they are little, they only learn or listen to relevant stories, they are interested in a message, a finality, they need to understand the usage of the presented objects or facts. Why do we stop doing so after some time? Has this world become so twisted? There is still hope, I know people who would still be interested in learning facts and not empty words, but there must be a way to outnumber the ones who prefer the easy way out. But what's the way? This is the question...