Why are so many young people depressed? It's because of smartphones obviously! Wait, but why do they turn so much to their phone in the first place?
Most people would answer the first question with the first answer, and simply stop their thinking there. Whatever you think the answer to the second question is,4 I think anyone who thinks about the situation as a whole would see that the first answer isn't satisfying at all. It is an important factor for sure—I personally got rid of my smartphone for that reason—but it cannot be the whole story. This is one example of what it means to get rid of the question.
If you zoom back and examine society and what it promotes, you'd see that most of it is actually about getting rid of the question, not answering anything. The reason why is that obedience is more important to the system, which promotes top-down power, whereas curious examination dismantles dogma and stories used to build our social matrix.
Examples:
Replying to the curiosity of a child with disenchanted mechanical explanations, because you want the child to shut up with your explanation. “Wow rainbows are so beautiful” “They’re just the result of light being refracted on water droplets, it’s nothing special”.
The culture of entertainment and distraction produces people who are so busy being “entertained” that they do not ask questions in the first place. This is the “Brave New World” type of control of individuals.
Thinking you've answered philosophical inquiry with meter-reading science, like saying that “time is what a clock reads”. It is certainly a useful definition if you want to model the world, but not if you want to get to the essence of it.
A lot of thinking that revolves around explaining what the system is and why it is so horrifying is simply done so that people shut up and accept our reality. For example: "Humans are selfish" say the selfish people, or "Hierarchies are always needed" say the ones on top of hierarchies, or "It's a bad system but it's the least bad", in the context of democracy for instance, or "Do you want to go back to wild and be starving all the time?"
Institutions in general create implicit boundaries on the type of questions that we can ask. We can think about how to improve our system, but we can never wonder if the system as a whole is actually needed in our lives. As Thomas Pynchon said: “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”