Subject: Fwd: > Psychology 101 - THIS IS BRILLIANT!! > >> 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. > > The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the > stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap > 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. > > 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.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:21:09 +0000
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