I am reading a good book on finance, and the debt that most people are in. When reading this book, I came to many instances were situations were comparable to topics discussed here. The goal of the book was to change the deep rooted ways to thinking, and convert the reader into a new mindset.
A particularly interesting chapter discussed an experiment done on monkeys that I believe is pertinent to this thread. This is probably a re-hash, or possibly a repost, but for those who have not heard of it before, it is extremely interesting.
A group of monkeys are placed in a confined cage to live in. A pole is placed in the center of the room with food at the top. The catch is when the monkeys attempt to climb the pole, a blast of water hits the monkeys and knocks them down. Obviously, the bravest monkeys go first, and get knocked down. The lesser ones observe this, and will actually prevent the 'alphas' ( if you could call them that) from going up. now it gets interesting. One by one, they replace the monkeys with new monkeys who attempt to go up to the top. They too are dragged down, but have not directly observed a blast of water. Eventually, all the monkeys are replaced, and have never seen the water blast a monkey from the pole.....but they continue to drag down any group mate who attempts to climb.
They don't have a reason, and don't know why they are doing this.
The point is AFCs act like AFCs only because they observe it. There is no point being submissive, and living in a ****ty relationship, but everyone else pushes in todays society, so we don't question it. At one point, maybe the behavior proved to be beneficial ( although unlikely), so like our primate cousins, AFCs continue to drag themselves and others down.
We are in a state where the chumps in society try to drag the rest of us down pushing their self fulfilling ideologies onto others. Sadly, the older one gets, the more set in their ways and devoted to their beliefs they become. As morpheas once said, we normally do not remove anyone from the matrix past a certain age.
A particularly interesting chapter discussed an experiment done on monkeys that I believe is pertinent to this thread. This is probably a re-hash, or possibly a repost, but for those who have not heard of it before, it is extremely interesting.
A group of monkeys are placed in a confined cage to live in. A pole is placed in the center of the room with food at the top. The catch is when the monkeys attempt to climb the pole, a blast of water hits the monkeys and knocks them down. Obviously, the bravest monkeys go first, and get knocked down. The lesser ones observe this, and will actually prevent the 'alphas' ( if you could call them that) from going up. now it gets interesting. One by one, they replace the monkeys with new monkeys who attempt to go up to the top. They too are dragged down, but have not directly observed a blast of water. Eventually, all the monkeys are replaced, and have never seen the water blast a monkey from the pole.....but they continue to drag down any group mate who attempts to climb.
They don't have a reason, and don't know why they are doing this.
The point is AFCs act like AFCs only because they observe it. There is no point being submissive, and living in a ****ty relationship, but everyone else pushes in todays society, so we don't question it. At one point, maybe the behavior proved to be beneficial ( although unlikely), so like our primate cousins, AFCs continue to drag themselves and others down.
We are in a state where the chumps in society try to drag the rest of us down pushing their self fulfilling ideologies onto others. Sadly, the older one gets, the more set in their ways and devoted to their beliefs they become. As morpheas once said, we normally do not remove anyone from the matrix past a certain age.
