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 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 and state legislatures operate... and is why, from time to time, ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!!

 

 

Thats a great post

 

Mike, Is this a thread about installing APE's?

Well, as you know, we here in California tried replacing a good number of those idiots in Sacramento and Washington last November, and I've been trying ever since to figure out who the hell voted for those people who got elected, or reelected...especially Boxer and Brown. I think the problem here is that too many monkeys voted. We need an intelligence test as a requirement to vote.

I'm currently reading Vince Flynn's book, "Pursuit Of Honor". I laughed out loud last night when I read the main character, a CIA agent, addressing the "Senator from California" as "ma'am" during a Judiciary Committee meeting. Of course she responded with, "It's Senator. I've worked very hard...."

 

+1
Genius.

 

Me like...

 

Frickin' awesomme post!!
Also what's needed is an election campaign spending cap say $1 million max.
Also ALL campaign/party donations will be classified as BRIBES and receipients to get jail time!!

 

Hawk,
If this is your original writing, you are a genius.
I most confess that I will be plagiarize this great analogy. We are in the final days of our federal elections and this goes a long ways in explaining what the people of Canada are trying to do i.e. rid us of the first 5 monkeys all at once. Not sure that we will get all 5!
For all the American forum readers out there, you will be a little envious of our process. Our federal elections only last 36 days from start to finish. Yes in 36 days, we can rid ourselves of a good number of monkeys. It takes you damn near 2 years from start to finish. You have to be the toughest bunch on the planet to listen to all that dribble for that length of time.

 

In other words... term limits!! Career Public Servant is an oxymoron.

Getting to choose only between door number 1 (Democrat) and door number 2, (Republican) means you can get monkeys with different hairstyles but they are identical clones. The 2 party system is a failure so it doesn't matter how smart the voter is, there is no real choice as things are.

 

Mike,
It's a totally different scenario, but it reminds me of the frogs in a pot of water coming to a slow boil.

I jumped out of the pot years ago, but to no avail...so far.

 

8541, that is great. If you like that psyc 101, check out this video, it will be of interest.

YouTube - Dan Gilbert: Exploring the frontiers of happiness

Slightly mind expanding....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .