What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz (ed. The New Press, 2016) - ISBN: 9781620970768