this is how it works…

If you start with a cage containing 5 monkeys and inside the cage hang a banana on a string and then 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 the 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 the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five, replacing him with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment… with enthusiasm.

Then, replace a third monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys 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, none 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 Governments operate… and, is why, from time to time, ALL THE MONKEYS NEED TO BE REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!

2 thoughts on “this is how it works…

  1. Yes, supposing the following:
    1) we carefully murder the old monkeys so they can’t tell the new ones the cold water story.
    2)And destroy all records, written or otherwise, of the wet event (the water will probably never gets a Second Coming but what if it does?)
    3)AND make sure there’s no information leakage whatsoever of the thing because if it is someone is sure to make a movie about it and start a conspiration, thus a new tradition will be born, stronger and better and with no intention of dying.

    Then we’ll have a better world.

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