Psyc 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 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!

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