:-0) True wisdom! Think I'll have it tattooed on the inside of my forehead.
Thanks! Keith > An observation with a purpose, from Chicago's Maggie Kohls > > 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, and then the fifth. > > Every time the newest monkey take s to the stairs, he is attacked. None of > the monkeys that are beating him have any 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 around here. > > And that, my dear friends and colleagues, is how government policy begins. > > -- > Maggie Kohls ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
