How my country progressed~

I was unable to trace back the origins of this story.
Its not by me, just to clear things up.
Its a lil something i received by mail.

Independence day is such a joke.
A good example of how its gone starts below:

Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage,  
hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.  
Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb  
towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray  
all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while,  
another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the  
other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when  
another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys  
will try to prevent it.  

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage  
and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana  
and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all  
of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and  
attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will  
be assaulted.  

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace  
it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is  
attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment  
with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey  
with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.  

Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is  
attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no  
idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why  
they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.  

After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining  
monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless,  
no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the  
banana.  

Why not?  

Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been  
done around here.



That's why we celebrate independence day. At least the people around my age.