Fw: Cage of 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 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 wants to climb the Stairs.
To his shock, 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 up 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 of 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 is the way it has always been done around here.

And that, my fellow monkeys, is how Congress operates....
We need to REPLACE all the original monkeys this November

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

So then we'll be getting rid of all the Republican MCs too, right?

CharlieE said...

So if your monkey is a Republican, you'll vote for a Democrat this time?

You can only vote for the people who are actually on the ballot, you know.

Anonymous said...

The anti-government rhetoric is so over-the-top, my local paper recently printed a letter calling for "fire them all" wanting to do away with all local government completely. An incredibly stupid idea, but that's where this kind of hate government monkey story leads--to a mindless hatred and simplistic thinking about how things work.

ferschitz said...

I get that people are frustrated and often with good reason. But I am frustrated by the simplistic mindlesses of junk like this. While it's ok to vent sometimes, the rightwing is constantly hyper-vent-ilating, and often with no realistic solution.

We've seen quite a few RWFs like this one, which basically say "fire them all." It's more useful to come up with practical solutions that have a chance of working.

If you're ticked off w/your local gov't, then how about attending council meetings and demanding evidence of employee salaries, for example?? It's not that difficult to come up with actions that can be taken, but it seems like rightwingers prefer to mindlessly whine and complain, rather than take responibility for, you know, doing something.

Marc with a C said...

Any chance someone then gave these monkeys typewriters? Because that would explain a lot.

MonkeyMan said...

Wish these beings would stop monkeying around.

Darwin's Theory of Evolution said...

Republicans are just mad because they're descended from apes.

Dr. Zaius said...

Stop giving monkeys such a bad name!

Nova said...

I'm about to go ape-s***!

Woody Allen said...

This is bananas!

Jane Goodall said...

I'd like to say that this is more fun than a barrel of monkeys, but it's not.

Ghost of Dian Fossey said...

Hanging out with the apes certainly made more sense than this monkey-poo.

Tarzan said...

Chetah! Is that you, Chetah??

Jane said...

Stop monkeying around, Tarzan!

King Kong said...

Make those darn monkeys work for a living. I should know! Climbing the Empire State Building was hard work.

Kurt Vonegut Jr said...

Welcome to the Monkey House.

Mick Jagger said...

I'm a fleabit peanut monkey. All my friends are monkies...

Dr. Watson said...

Holmes, I insist that you get that monkey off of your back.

Groucho Marx said...

What's with all this monkey business?

Karl Marx said...

Stop the monkey shines already.

Hanuman said...

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

Monkey See said...

Monkey Do.

Useless Glenn Beck said...

LOL: there's a huge monkey flying out of your huge butt, Rush!

Bigoted Boss Limbaugh said...

Don't laugh so fast, Useless Glenn, there's a big monkey flying outta your ass, too.

Wicked Witch of the West said...

Cackle!! Those are my flying monkeys, my pretty boys, and they have you under my control.

 
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