This exact scenario has
happened to me many times in my life. It is your own kind that will
bring you down if they perceive you are:
"doing something you are
not supposed to do and getting away with it!"
from a Casey missive,
reader and correspondent Jacques T.writes:
If you start with a cage containing five monkeys, and
inside the cage hang a banana on a string from the top, and then
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 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. 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, none 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 and the Senate operates...
and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be
REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
One obvious lesson from that
citation – a lesson first made viral by Pavlov in the early 20
thcentury – is that humans, like all the lower animal
forms, are easily trained through trial and error, especially when
rewards and punishments are involved. But even the lack of a treat
or a torment can be instructional – for instance, if walking
through a particular door results in no reward or punishment, you
won’t hesitate to walk through that door again.
Title: we are nothing but
this really isn't meant politically. I've got nothing to say ...
Posted by Palladin on 3rd of Apr 2011 at 10:31 am
This exact scenario has happened to me many times in my life. It is your own kind that will bring you down if they perceive you are:
"doing something you are not supposed to do and getting away with it!"
from a Casey missive, reader and correspondent Jacques T.writes:
If you start with a cage containing five monkeys, and inside the cage hang a banana on a string from the top, and then 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 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. 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, none 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 and the Senate operates... and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
One obvious lesson from that citation – a lesson first made viral by Pavlov in the early 20 thcentury – is that humans, like all the lower animal forms, are easily trained through trial and error, especially when rewards and punishments are involved. But even the lack of a treat or a torment can be instructional – for instance, if walking through a particular door results in no reward or punishment, you won’t hesitate to walk through that door again.
Change monkeys with bears"
Posted by freddy123321 on 3rd of Apr 2011 at 11:48 am
Change monkeys with bears"
yes, I said they went
Posted by marketguy on 3rd of Apr 2011 at 12:00 pm
yes, I said they went on "buys" a week or so ago you prick...
(these are something new that I developed)...
post a chart sometime instead of bashing others which is the "only" time you ever post anything.....
You calling bears "monkeys". Lol
Posted by freddy123321 on 3rd of Apr 2011 at 11:47 am
You calling bears "monkeys". Lol Love traders that trade on opinions!
looks like the monkeys are
Posted by Palladin on 3rd of Apr 2011 at 12:05 pm
looks like the monkeys are getting ready to beat up on the monkey trying to get to the banana!
time to replace all the monkeys!
wish I could say lol
Posted by marketguy on 3rd of Apr 2011 at 11:00 am
wish I could say lol palladin but that sure is a sad commentary and good example of where we are at