When I was in undergrad and asked “Why are we doing this?”, if the answer was “I have absolutely no idea and neither does anyone else I’ve asked”, then my response was always “FUCK YEAH LET’S DO THIS!”
This could have been a link instead of a screenshot and then it would be accessible to everyone.
Take five chimpanzees. Put them in a big cage. Suspend some bananas from the roof of the cage. Provide the chimpanzees with a stepladder. BUT also add a proximity detector to the bananas, so that when a chimp goes near the banana, water hoses are triggered and the whole cage is thoroughly soaked.
Soon, the chimps learn that the bananas and the stepladder are best ignored.
Now, remove one chimp, and replace it with a fresh one. That chimp knows nothing of the hoses. He sees the banana, notices the stepladder, and because he is a smart primate, he envisions himself stepping on the stepladder to reach the bananas. He then deftly grabs the stepladder… and the four other chimps spring on him and beat him squarely. He soon learns to ignore the stepladder.
Then, remove another chimp and replace it with a fresh one. The scenario occurs again; when he grabs the stepladder, he gets mauled by the four other chimps – yes, including the previous “fresh” chimp. He has integrated the notion of “thou shallt not touch the stepladder”.
Iterate. After some operations, you have five chimps who are ready to punch any chimp who would dare touch the stepladder (or curse Henry Symeonis) – and none of them knows why.
Chimp cage of Theseus
literally how traditions work
Iterate. After some operations, you have five chimps who are ready to punch any chimp who would dare touch the stepladder (or curse Henry Symeonis) – and none of them knows why.
Super interesting. Is this why peasant-brains defend capitalism, our undemocratic two party system, and the oligarchy so intensely?
A while back I looked for a source for this. Apparently it never happened.
Well, it might not have happened with chimpanzees, but it happens all the time with humans. So I see it more as a good allegory than a true story.
Like Peasant-brains defending oligarch billionaires or attacking socialists who try to help them
It’s a Aesop.
Literally made up in one of those “how to get rich” garbage books.
It’s more of a thought experiment than a real occurrence.
now put the stepladder inside a room with a door, make the chimps beat up anyone who opens the door, and you’ll have a next gen security system
engineer: what about a wall instead of a door?
How can I achieve this kind of notoriety? I don’t wanna kill anyone though. Or steal from anyone or hurt anyone.
You could do something to help an enormous amount of people. But realistically in the world we live in that would probably still involve killing someone.
rip a legendary fart
This is the way. I almost made a guy puke in his own car. He still talks about it years later.
In 1242 he and a number of other men of the town of Oxford were found guilty of murdering a student of the University. Henry and his accomplices were fined £80 by King Henry III in May 1242 and were made to leave Oxford
Seems he later paid off the king for forgiveness, but the faculty was not so forgiving.
About £110k if you account for inflation
Henry, son of Henry and grandson of Symeon, first appears in 1225.[2] He too was rich and owned multiple properties in the city.[1]
He sold an island to the King
So, 80 pounds back then was probably pocket change for Henry, son of Henry, grandson of Symeon, ex-owner of an island
Wow, truly the Rapist Brock Allen Turner of his time.
Doing the lords work keeping fucks like that from disappearing into the shadows.
Well seemed like he deserved it.
Well, what did he do?
So he murdered a scholar?
Wait until you hear why Cambridge exists.
alledgedly, in a videogame
Desmond!
Requiescat in pace
This triggered some memories
