Here is a parable or story of how social conditioning occurs. I was in Kalispell yesterday talking to a former Bishop from our ward there who has woken up - and who has gotten beaten up by a former peer in the Stake who is "too smart" for that kind of stuff. The SIFTING is occurring.....:
Psychology 101 - If
you start with a cage containing four 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. ALL the monkeys are sprayed with cold water. After a
while, another monkey makes an attempt with same result -- As soon as he
touches the stairs, you spray ALL the monkeys 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 monkey. 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 four monkeys, replacing it
with a new monkey. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The
previous newcomer takes part in the punishment รข with enthusiasm -- because he
is now part of the "team".
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new monkey, followed
by the fourth. 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!
This is how today's House and Senate operates; and this is why,
from time to time, ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!
Disclaimer: This is meant as no disrespect to monkeys.
Trivial snivelers, unfortunately, will be found in every ward........sigh. There must be an island somewhere not being used..............just sayin'.
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