The Allegory of five monkeys

1. How Is A Paradigm Formed?
"Only two things are infinite:
The universe and human
stupidity. And I am not so sure
about the former."
Albert Einstein

2. MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO.
Ladder (escalera)
Soak. (remojar)
The rest of. (lo demas)
Dare. (atreverse)
Beat up (dar paliza)
Even though (aun que)
Regardless. (a pesar de)
Climb (escalar)
Cage (jaula)

3. A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys
in a cage, and in the middle, a ladder
with bananas on top.

4. Every time a monkey went up the
ladder, the scientists soaked the rest
of the monkeys with cold water.

5. After a while, every time a
monkey went up the ladder, the
others beat-up the one on the
ladder.

6. After some time, no monkey dared
to go up the ladder, regardless of
the temptation.

7. The scientists then
decided to substitute one
of the monkeys.

8. The 1st thing this new monkey
did was to go up the ladder.
Immediately the other monkeys
beat him up.

9. After several beatings, the
new member learned not to
climb the ladder even though
he never knew why.

10. A 2nd monkey was
substituted and the same
thing happened. The 1st
monkey participated in the
beating for the 2nd monkey.

11. The replacement was repeated
until what was left was a group
of 5 monkeys that even-though
they had never received a cold
shower, continued to beat-up
any monkey who attempted to
climb the ladder.

12. If you asked the new group
of monkeys why the beatings
took place

13. The answer would probably be….
“Well, I don’t know –
that’s just how things are
done around here”