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Got this from a friend today in an email. This is an excellent analogy.
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 will attack 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, because he is now
part of the "team".
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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