Sunday, August 08, 2010

Society Is Like A Bunch Of Monkeys


The following analogy sent by one of my readers, is near exactly the way a free self governed society such as America, is surreptitiously and incrementally remade into a tyrannically controlled irresponsible and dependant society without anyone’s knowledge of how it got that way.

By de Andréa

The analogy of the Monkeys

Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes the attempt with the same result, all the other monkeys are then sprayed with cold water. Soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

When the society has reached this point, 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 wants to independently climb the stairs.

To his ‘shock’, all of the other monkeys attack him! After a few more attempts and attacks, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace ‘it’ with a new one.

The newcomer goes to the stairs and is promptly attacked. The previous newcomer now takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.

Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked by the rest of society.

The monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs much less why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys has ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey will ever again approach the stairs to try for the banana.

Why not?

Because as far as this society of monkey’s know, that is the way it has always been done around here.

And this, my friend, is how the government incrementally indoctrinates a free society to accept absolute tyrannical control.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Before we find ourselves hopelessly stuck in the monkey cage, and before we forget altogether what it was like to successfully achieve personal goals and live in a free and motivated society, we need to begin REPLACING this government of ours.

Read this analogy again and again until you can draw parallels to the Cultural environment that we have so surreptitiously been indoctrinated to accept without really understanding just exactly how we arrived at this dependant, oppressive, irresponsible and unmotivated place in our history.

It truly ‘isn’t’ my friend… the way it has always been done around here!

This November, might be a good time to begin replacing this government…

de Andréa

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