[WAR-PARTY]

Being as most of us are drinking/smoking, this will work out those last few functioning brain cells:

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 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,
then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs
he is
attacked.

Most of the monkeys that are beating him 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 monkey, is how policy begins.........

[HMUSN]

so true