Why is being curious good? Why is reading lots of books good

>>2486444
>information presented in a book length document is a cultural artefact?

Take your head out of your ass please.

Being curious shows that you are interested in expanding your knowledge of various subjects and thus you are interested in improving yourself in general. Furthermore, a man who is interested in making himself better can become intersted in making the world or, at least, his community a better place.

Curiosity is a natural part of being human, it's not a "good" or "bad" thing unless you contextualize it somehow.

I don't know about "good," but curiousity is a trait of every intelligent person. I think it's truly bizarre you mention mathematical proofs as something curious individuals DON'T do, as that's completely backwards. Anyone who becomes an expert in something and expands the corpus of knowledge about it had to have been deeply curious to do so. And to top it off you spout the "social signaling," which is so stupid. No, OP, not every virtue that people possess is just showing off. Not everyone is secretly just as shitty as you.

>>2486444
Curiousity was defined as one of the 3 big evils by Aquinas.

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I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.