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We,
the Human
or Modern Man, are considering ourselves as an
intelligent, logical and meaningful being. There are
many proofs for that, starting with the difference
between us and animals, our
scientific achievements,
civilization development, up to our drive to travel far
into the universe. Our logic and fact supported actions
are indeed something that distinguish us from the
animals.
But
sometimes we are acting totally opposite from meaningfulness
and logic. Sometimes we do something simply because the
other people do it the same way, although nobody knows
why we do it. We simply obey bad habits,
even if we do not know for what reason. We simply want to
be the same as the most of the people.
There
is the story that explains how this type of
behavior appears. There are some claims that this was a real experiment
about behavior of monkeys.
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The
group of scientists placed 5 monkeys into the cage
with the ladders in the middle. They also placed
the bunch of bananas on the top of the ladders. |
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The obvious happened: curious
and hungry monkeys started to climb the ladders,
in order to reach the bananas. But every time when
one of the monkeys headed for the ladder to take
the bananas, scientists washed all monkey with
cold water. Soon monkeys
realized that if the try to reach the bananas that
they will be punished. They realized that it is
not worth of it, and they stopped with attempts to pick up bananas. They
even started to beat one who would still want to climb
the ladders, since the others didn't want to
suffer consequences.
Soon, scientist replaced one monkey with the new
one. The newbee, who didn't know about the rules,
tried to climb the ladders, but the other monkeys
beat him. The new monkey didn’t know why it
happens, but he realized that climbing for bananas
would be penalized. So, he gave up bananas.
Afterwards, scientist replaced other monkeys with
the new ones. Every new monkey was taught the
lesson about rule of not climbing the ladders, by
being beaten by other monkeys for
attempt of taking bananas.
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Finally,
all monkeys were replaced with new ones. No one of
them knew what is the consequence for attempt of
grabbing banana. No one of them knew why, by they
comply with the rules. They were beating every new
monkey for trying to reach the banana, although
they didn't knew why they are doing that. They
didn't even know that they actually explained how
the Paradigm becomes. |
Did
you ever asked your self why you do something simply
because everybody do it? If you would ask the others,
probably they wouldn't know the answer, but they would
be doing it. We call it habit. We call it folklore. We
call it the legacy. We call it the law. At our home, at
school, in church, or at work they are always teaching
us how something should be done. But there are so many
things that we are used to do, because we are told so by
somebody,
who also do not know the real meaning of things of all
bad habits.
Then
why don’t we
stop taking things straight as
they are presented to us and start realizing the real
reason for doing something? Why don't we stop doing
things only because everybody does it? Is majority
always right?
Do
you know any Paradigm around you?
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