Monday, May 5, 2014
Bananas And 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 of the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the 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 away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys 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 and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer 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.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done round here.
And that, my friends, is how government policies are made.
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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 of the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the 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 away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys 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 and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer 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.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done round here.
And that, my friends, is how government policies are made.
More Interesting Stories, Amazing or Funny Things CLICK HERE
Ka-ching for Rep. Tom Cotton whose ad slams Mark Pryor for military comments
WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor may have touched a political third rail while fighting for his political life against freshman Rep. Tom Cotton.
Pryor, a two-term Democrat whose seat is considered one of the more vulnerable for Republicans to pick up in November, accused his opponent of running for his House seat simply as a means to run for Senate.
"When I look at Congressman Cotton's record, I don't see where he's passed a bill, I don't see where he's really accomplished anything in the House," Pryor told NBC's Kasie Hunt last month.
But Pryor may have stepped in it when Hunt asked about Cotton's service in the Army, where he served tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
"I appreciate that, I have great respect for that, I would never criticize anyone for serving our country, and I say thank you for that," Pryor said, but added that military service, in his mind, does not automatically qualify someone to become a senator.
"There's a lot of people in the Senate that didn't serve in the military," Pryor said. Then, he went on to say Cotton, also a graduate of Harvard Law, seems to behave as if he felt Arkansas voters owed him the Senate seat for his military service.
"And I think that's part of this sense of entitlement, that he gives off, that almost is like, I served my country, therefore let me into the Senate," Pryor said. "That's not the way it works in Arkansas."
Cotton jumped on Pryor's remarks, releasing a campaign ad Monday that highlighted why he believes his service prepared him for the Senate.
“Sen. Pryor says my military service gives me quote, ‘a sense of entitlement,’ so I brought in an expert,” Cotton said as Sgt. George Norton steps into the frame.
“Drill Sgt. Norton taught me how to be a soldier: Accountability, humility and putting the unit before yourself," Cotton continues. "That training stuck.”
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