It is obvious that today’s people have become the product of weird dogmatic practices without pausing for a moment to scrutinize why things are the way they are. We strictly follow and adhere to principles pertaining to traditions, religion, politics, and other systems blindly because ‘that is the norm.’
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Although somewhat contested, it is believed that Stephenson, G. R. in 1967 contacted an experiment to point out the flaw of this human disposition.
Five monkeys were put in a room and in the middle of the room was a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tried to climb the ladder; all the monkeys were sprayed with iced water, which made them miserable.
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Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempted to climb the ladder, all of the monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed, set upon and beat him up. Soon, none of the five monkeys ever attempted to climb the ladder.
One of the original monkeys was removed, and a new monkey was put in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wondered why none of the other monkeys were doing the obvious. But undaunted, he immediately began to climb the ladder.
All the other monkeys jumped on him and beat the hell out of him. He had no idea why he was being beaten. However, he no longer attempted to climb the ladder.
A second original monkey was removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempted to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammered the crap out of him—including the previous new monkey, who had no idea why they were even beating the new monkey.
One by one, all the original monkeys were replaced. Five new monkeys were now in the room. None of them had been sprayed by iced water before yet none of them attempted to climb the ladder.
All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tried, without having any idea why—this became how things were done there.
And that is how traditions, religions and systems get established and followed the supposed experiment explained.
Is it prudent on your part to belong to any political party, religious party or have extreme chauvinism to traditional taboos and superstition without getting your understanding of it or subjecting it to intensive scrutiny?
Africa is blessed with lots of resources but plagued with lots of problems ranging from poverty to pestilence because we behave like the monkeys in the above theory. Let’s wake up and exploit the power of our brains to help us move forward in every facet of our lives
