[BITList] Psychology 101

[franka]

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    **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 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 to
    the banana.***

    *Why, you ask? Because in their minds .... that is the way it has
    always been*

    *This is how Politics operates .... and is why, from time to
    time,*******/ALL OF THE MONKEYS NEED TO BEREPLACED AT THE SAME
    TIME./***//**

    	




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