Psychology

[Malcolm Robinson]

Psychology 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, 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 Parliament operates... and this is why,

from time to time:

ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.

[keith lockey]

Psychology 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, 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 Parliament operates... and this is why,

from time to time:

ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.

Brilliant posting, Malcolm.

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

So really all the tory politicians need to do is keep feeding us bananas, without strings attached, and we will all be happy, until there are no bananas left.

Then we will complain and overthrow that useless government and get in a new lot with fresh ideas.

The fresh ideas will be to make it more difficult, and involve more participating bodies, therefore costing more, to achieve the same result as the initial first simple idea of feed the general public (the monkeys).

The monkeys could then get together, vote a leader and form a union and that will make them stronger and more powerful. They will then back the labour guy with the most bananas and get him made the leader (or is that Jungle Book – I'm the king of the swingers!). The back benchers will then grumble and plot to get another leader that is not backed by the unions but by the back benchers.

The government is now in total disharmony and goes back to the monkeys for a vote of confidence to enable them to say 'this is what the monkeys want, they voted for it, so stop the infighting.'

Unfortunately those new monkeys that have never been soaked before, now bombarded with promises of more bananas, can't decide whom to vote for and therefore go for a change of government and vote the opposition back in to try again.

The new party now have a new piece of string called a manifesto and they can hang, disguised or not, their new bananas …………………………………………..

PS. – Malcolm I had to reply, but I did enjoy your story and I would not confine it to Room 101.

[Symptoms]

But!!! Remember, the beasts who have all the real power are the small band of gorillas who OWN the banana plantations ... let's call them aristoapes.