If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a
banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the
banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new
monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of
the other monkeys beat the "tar" out of him. After another attempt and attack,
he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment...... with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team".
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment...... with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team".
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.
Now,
the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to
climb the stairs.
Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and this is why, from time to time: ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and this is why, from time to time: ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
H/t To Murray
YES! that was awesome
ReplyDeleteOutstanding!
ReplyDeleteI have been looking for this, I ran across it while at Lockheed back in the 80's...yeah, I worked with a bunch of monkeys, most where in management. I am going to steal this now!
ReplyDeletehmm... I may be completely incorrect here, but not sure if monkey's and/or other animals can be compared to human beings...
ReplyDeleteYou see, at birth we were blessed with slice of God's spirit. to search, to learn, to heal, to cure, to build, to create, to destroy, etc...
We are the only animal, that read, write, reason, music, poetry, cook, clean, experiment. We long to for freedom, travel, industry, prosperity, or other abstracts of human spirit...
Monkey's or dogs or dolphins, however smart, have no such capacity, for they lack God's spirit... As long as we have kept records, animals seem to worry only about the most basic instinct of flesh, eat, sleep and screw... They have no longing of humans spirit and its blessed gifts...
When dolphins or monkey's start building hospital or schools for other animals or themselves, the theory above can apply to human beings...
Just an opinion that can be proven... However, as innercity plantations and welfare state as a testament these days, human being have been driven to its most basic animal instant -- Godless, spiritless, with only worries of its most basic animal instinct...