April 2012
4 posts
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities (via philphys)
The 5 Monkeys Experiment and the Dangers of Folk...
If you are like me, you may have heard this story at work, at seminars or in discussions about “group-think” or corporate organizational behavior. It goes something like this:
A primatologist gets five monkeys together in a cage, places a ladder in the middle of the cage and then places a banana on top of the ladder. Naturally, one of the monkeys quickly spots the banana and races...
Mind Over Monkey - First Post
It’s just human nature.
We hear this assertion a lot. Whenever the discussion turns to societal problems or problematic behaviors, we hear that this or that phenomenon is attributable to “human nature”. The usual formulation follows that because this thing is part of “human nature” we cannot possibly do anything to fix or alleviate it, nor should we even try....
““Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its...”
– http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_darwin.html 