Psychology 101
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.
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.
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