[StarsWorld]

Received in an email .... bears consideration.

A PARABLE FOR OUR TIME:

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.

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!

And 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.

[endulundaSauh]

It's such a great parable. Very enlightening.

[antipenq]

A important issue that is not addressed.

Who is the provider of the banana that all the monkeys are clamoring for??



Who provides the money status and privilage that the congress vermin clamor for


Think about it .

[Aleenkagirlla]

If you replace all of the congress at one time, you also have to replace all of the lobbyists too, otherwise this will not have the intended effect.

The lobbyists represent the money power. They supply all the bananas, and they operate the game that really drives the congress. The lobbyists will teach all the new congress people how to play their game forever.

Does anyone here think that AIPAC will fail to find a way to make a congress full of new people bend to their will?

This is a great story as it applies to groups that are autonomous, honest, and not beholden to an external power--such as the money power that drives the US government.

This story is one that the money power promotes because it points to a false solution to the problem that people have, and buys time for the money power to hang on to power.

The way to solve the problem Americans have with their government is to abolish the Fed and to make usury illegal. Also, to require government officials to obey their 'oaths of office'. That will make Israel loosen its grip. Then take away the power of the money power. That, unfortunately, cannot be done without having a revolution. The money power will not relinquish its power so easily.

Hatha

[ethigSmimbine]

Until one day the new monkey being introduced realizes that HE IS A MONKEY and can easily climb the cage, swing over to the banana, grab it and easily make his way down.

Then what happens......?

All the other monkeys who were to scared to climb the steps and get the banana, now want something for free, that they didnt have to work for.....So they attack the monkey who privided for himself.

The remaining monkeys call the Scientist (Their God) and force the scientist to steal the banana from the individual monkey and distribute it among the other monkeys.

And finally the smart monkey who merely used his instinct and faculties to privide for himself, is taken out of the monkey population and put into a solitary confinement cage, where he will not be able to show other monkeys how to use their common monkey sense.

[StarsWorld]

And finally the smart monkey who merely used his instinct and faculties to privide for himself, is taken out of the monkey population and put into a solitary confinement cage, where he will not be able to show other monkeys how to use their common monkey sense.

It is a simple parable. No more, no less. You might have constructed a novelette along the lines of PLANE OF THE APES.

[rockboyzaza]

It is a simple parable. No more, no less. You might have constructed a novelette along the lines of Federal PLANE OF THE APES.

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