100th Monkey

Some of us listen. Some of us speak. When I chose to speak so many years ago, I found that speaking is MUCH harder than listening. Speaking demands listeners. Listeners, to listen, must be interested.

What I found over the years is that truth, real truth, is not popular. I can recall being in 100's of public places over the years, engaging total strangers in deep conversations. They seemed interested in what I had to say at the time. But over the years, after suggesting materials to them, showing them how to learn, receiving promises of future contact, I have yet to receive but two emails from any of them.

Okay, the post was titled "100th Monkey", let me explain. In the 50's the U.S. military detonated hydrogen bombs on a small atoll in the pacific called the "Bikini Islands". It was an experiment. They wanted to know how much devastation the bomb would wreak and how long it would take before life resumed. After the bomb went off they brought in some monkeys. The monkeys ate coconuts. The problem was that the husks of the coconuts were radioactive. So scientists went in and taught a few monkeys how to wash the coconuts before they broke them open and ate them. The total monkey population was around 10,000 and at the outset only about a dozen monkeys had learned to wash their coconuts. That number  began to accelerate immediately ... but ...

When the 100th monkey began washing his coconut, the other 9,900 instantly joined in. All it took was 100 monkeys to convince the rest of them.

100 ....not really a big number.

We can do it.