The Story of the 5 Monkeys
(this is reportedly based on an actual experiment conducted in the UK):

Put five monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling.

Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed, set upon him and beat him up.  Soon, none of the five monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder.

One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of the other monkeys are doing the obvious. But undaunted, he immediately begins to climb the ladder.

All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat him silly. He has no idea why. However, he no longer attempts to climb the ladder.

A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer the crap out of him.

This includes the previous new monkey, who, grateful that he’s not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it.  However, he has no idea why he’s attacking the new monkey.

One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced.  Five new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water.  None of them attempt to climb the ladder.  All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea why.

Sometimes, this feels like life.  People just accept the status quo as truth because others are seemingly doing the same, without knowing why they do that.  They are not quite sure whether what people have been doing all along can be improved or changed.  They may even say it’s the policy or a matter of public opinion.  

At times, it feels like it’s just the standard practices that have been passed down from one generation to the next.  Nothing else. Then, if someone ask questions that are too far out of the comfort zone, that someone is ridiculed and scorned.  It was just a simple question that the others did not wish to think about.  Similar to the new monkey, who had no idea why.

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