Consulting the Thirsty Oracle

The modern consultant — that cloying dilettante whose ostensible hunger for wisdom has them conspicuously prostrating themselves before each and every perceived oracle — is not exactly the inquisitive and noble soul they portray themselves to be.
  Blind to their own Petrarchan conceits, they are the incurious who seek validation via placation by external parties telling them what they want to hear.
  Oblivious to their hypophorae, they micturate their empty questions into the mouths of thirsty oracles, awaiting some deep sagacity upon deglutition, but are only rewarded with effluvial splashback.
  They can then delude others with gnostic claims to revelation, but nowhere near as much as they delude themselves.