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 heck 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.
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of 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, 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 Congress operates… and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
Not only Congress but many individuals and organisations are resistant to change because” that is the way it has always been.”
JIMSKI says:
2 major holes in this theory. First if congress followed this then we would have never had income taxes because we did not start with income taxes. This follows to my second point. For some reason you think a congressman is monkey smart.
Not even close………..
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7th December 2012 at 12:42 pm
Eddie says:
Not sure how that monkey experiment works for Congressmen, since monkeys are far more intelligent, not to mention more concerned with the well-being of others.
How about we hit those crooks with a blast of ice-cold water every time they try to vote a tax increase, and see if they can be trained.
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7th December 2012 at 1:01 pm
Stucky says:
Fantastic experiment. Enjoyed it lots.
I read about a similar principle regarding domesticating elephants. Initially a wild elephant is tethered with a long iron stake and very heavy chains to keep it from escaping. Try as it might, and they try for a long time, the elephant cannot break free. However, once the elephant “learns: that it cannot escape, thereafter ANY type of chain and stake — no matter how weak — will keep it in place.
Here is a funny experiment called the Carlsberg’s Social Experiment. 1 min 38 sec.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEnhYlzqKUk&feature=player_embedded
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7th December 2012 at 1:58 pm
Stucky says:
This is, without exception, the most amazing psychological experiment I have ever seen online. No exaggeration.
Most people that take this test are simply blown away. I showed this to Ms Freud a couple years ago … she took the test 2 or 3 times, and “failed” … and when she finally got it, she couldn’t believe her eyes.
Lemme know how you did. (you people who know what it’s about … STFU!!! lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo&feature=player_embedded
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7th December 2012 at 2:03 pm
AWD says:
I thought the moral of the story was something different.
Any black person that tries to become educated, get married, have a real family, and produce and pay taxes gets called an “uncle Tom” and gets the shit beat out of him. Established morals and ethics of institutionalized victimhood and entitlement cannot be violated by someone trying to leave the reservation. Or, the crab story, the crabs always pull each other back into the squalor when one tries to escape. Same point, I guess, only politicians are criminals.
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7th December 2012 at 2:18 pm
OF says:
Brilliant. I stopped counting early because I got bored and I still didn´t see the Gorilla.
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7th December 2012 at 5:20 pm
OF says:
And this is why the MSM can cover up the vilest political crimes…
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7th December 2012 at 5:22 pm
Thunderbird says:
Seems to fit our present situation well. No one knows why we go along with what the government and corporations tell us to do or what the government or corporations do; but we do, and punish those that don’t.
A good example is coming with the new cannabis laws in Washington and Colorado making the plant legal to have and smoke. What happens if someone fails a drug test given by the company they work for? What then?
People do not know how to think or why they have to change their thinking when circumstances change. They are like the monkeys who just follow each other without knowing why.
So the question will arise that says: Does smoking cannabis the night before work affect the psychology of work the day after? Who can determine this, the one who has smoked or the one that has never smoked? The answer is quite clear to those who have smoked but not to those who have not smoked, yet many who make the laws have never smoked. or if they have they make decisions based on what the others do. Monkey see and monkey do. We are talking about humans here, or are we talking about sub humans. No, we are talking about humans that do “monkey see and monkey do.”
Interesting that in this modern age of technology man is really going backwards psychologically. We imitate what we see automatically rather than taking some thought into the matter to figure out if what we are doing is OK.
Cannabis has never been evil; it is just a plant with some amazing chemistry. It is only people with an evil psychology on life that is behind the law making it illegal. Never mind that it has been used by man for thousands of years for medical ailments and many other uses. Take hemp as an example as a very productive fiber that can be used for many, many uses, yet it is illegal because the monkeys in our society say so with no proof of what they are saying.
We have become a monkey society in everything we do. Think about it then tell me if I am wrong in this assumption.
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7th December 2012 at 1:46 pm