Monkeys In Business

  
“Monkeys?” said Fred.

“Where? What?” said I looking at myself to see If I he’d put on a piece of clothing with some sort of pattern that appeared like that animal...

“The monkey business you talked about yesterday.”

“Oh, yes I remember now, I did say I was going to tell you all about that scientific experiment.”

“Scientific experiment? You mean some sort of clutter influenced the outcome of that war that you talked about yesterday?”

“No, dear, I’m talking about a real scientific experimentation… well I don’t know if it ever took place really as it’s more sort of a story, but even if it didn’t it could, as you’ll see.”

“So do tell…”

“The story goes like this:

There was this a group of scientists studying behavioural patterns and they put 4 monkeys, A, B, C and D inside a cage.

The cage had a wooden ladder that went up to a single wooden platform. The floor of the cage was metal and wired up to a switch.

The scientists put a banana dangling above the platform. Clearly visible that it was only one banana. Mind you, the monkeys had to eat where they were but on that wooden platform only was one banana.

The quickest of the monkeys raced up the ladder for it.

The moment he was on the ladder, the scientists hit the switch causing a mild but painful electric shock to the other 3 monkeys that remained on the floor.

This process was repeated as many times as was necessary for the monkeys to make the connections between the shocks they were getting with the fact that one of them was going up the ladder for the banana.

Once that was clear, what do you think was the monkeys’ reaction when the next banana was put in place?”

“Be the first to get it? That’s what I would do! Let the others get shocked, plus have the banana for myself!!”

“Yes, but that would leave 3 very unhappy monkeys waiting for you…”

“That’s life, pals…”

“Yes, now you wouldn’t always be the fastest one up the ladder would you?”

“No…”

“So what would you do?”

“Well, I would make sure that if I didn’t get it no other would! If anyone as so much tried to touch that ladder I’d clobber him down!”

“Exactly!  And that was what the monkeys did. They no longer cared about the banana but focused on stopping any other to even as so much as touch the ladder!

The monkeys quickly understood that whenever a banana was put up on that platform the only way they weren’t shocked was if no monkey went up the ladder.

This meant that if one tried to go for the banana the other three would jump and not allow him to go up the ladder.”

“Clever monkeys!”

“So the experiment reached a point when a banana was put up the reaction of the monkeys would be just to look at it without even the slightest attempt of going for it.

Once this was achieved, they took out monkey A and put in monkey E.

Monkey E, unaware of the consequences of going up the ladder had the natural reaction of going for the banana when it was put there.

He was stopped every single time because monkeys B, C and D jumped on him.

Soon monkey E realized that all his attempts to go up that ladder would be abruptly stopped by the other 3 monkeys, so he stopped trying. Whenever a banana was put up he just looked at it like all other 3.

Notice that his stimulus was completely different from the other three. He associated the reaction of the fellow monkeys to the ladder and not the banana. For him it was the ladder that was forbidden territory. And he came to that conclusion without being shocked!

Then they took out monkey B and put in monkey F. Monkey F as soon as they put up the banana did what monkey E had done and went for the ladder and the same as monkey E monkey F was stopped by the other three, which included monkey E.

Monkeys C and D stopped monkey F for a completely different reason than monkey E. He helped stop monkey F because, as I said, he had assimilated that the use of that ladder was prohibited. So whenever F tried E was there with the rest of the gang to stop him.

Monkey F became like the other monkeys that just looked up to the dangling banana up on the platform.

Time to change monkeys. Out came C, in went G. And when G tried, D, E and F stopped him until G became also a “banana onlooker”.

Change the monkeys again. Out comes D, in goes H. H goes for the ladder and E, F and G don’t give him a chance. H becomes an onlooker too.

And this process was repeated until you had four monkeys W, X, Y and Z in a cage with a banana and none would make an attempt to eat it.

They would just look at the banana. None of them ever went up the ladder.

Notice that out of all the monkeys put in that cage, ONLY monkeys A, B, C and D had suffered electric shocks. All others from then on simply didn’t go up the ladder because all the rest of the monkeys in the cage would stop him to do it.”

“So the experiment proves that we do things in a certain way without questioning as to why just because we see other people doing that thing that way, is that the conclusion?”

“That’s right, and that is the normal conclusion that is made out of this experiment, but there’s another, and a much more relevant one.”

“And it is?”

“Will tell you in a minute.”

“Why won’t you tell me now?!?”

“Because I want you to understand completely its importance! Imagine that I’m drawing you a Treasure Map. I have to first fill in all the details before marking the X. If I just marked the X on a blank piece of paper and tell you to go and dig up the gold would you be able to do it?”

"No"

"So be patient. I want you to understand its importance and for you the be able to do that you have to first understand what happened in the first the 34 months of the GMW, between September 2007 and July 2010."

“What happened in those 34 months?”

“1,000 days, that’s what happened.”

“Yes, if I did a quick calculation in my head I would get there… what happened in that period, then?”

“Those first 1,000 days of the GMW were crucially important and the BHs just didn’t win it basically because of the second conclusion that can be taken from the monkey experiment.

Let me just tell you what, in our opinion, were the FIVE most relevant things happened in that period.

The FIRST thing was that those hundreds of thousands very quickly became “only” tens of thousands and those tens of thousands dwindled as quickly to the thousands and the figure just kept on decreasing to the point it became a problem to the BHs.”

“What problem? It seems to me that is what they wanted, or so you said yourself!”

“The problem was the 90/10 Murphy’s Law.”

“Huh?”

“The 90/10 Murphy’s Law says that the completion of 90% of any task takes only 10% of the time and the remainder 10% to be completed will take up the other 90% of the time.

The BHs had been able to smother the enormous tidal McCann wave into the size of a common one and by making it “common” they made Maddie become just one amongst other trillion topics being discussed on the internet.

They did away with “90%” of the people quickly but it came to the point when the “mere” thousands just wouldn’t go away.

What the BHs had done with the success to drive the majority away had a secondary effect and that was to fortify the thousands that stayed. They took the vitriolic not as off-putting but rather as further reason to fight for justice. It made them more resolute. It made them cry for justice even louder!

They not only wouldn’t go away as it seemed that they were there to stay and put up a fight every step of the way when it came to Maddie. The more heinous the BHs were the more determined these people seemed to become!

The only way to get these people off Maddie's internet highways, and rid of them, was to distract them away from the McCann apple on to another issue. 

This was done through vitriolic and senseless internal “cat-fights”. "Pretendy" fights between people who "were" on the "good" side of the fence. 

Awfully off-putting and extremely effective as it forced people to take sides, a very uncomfortable thing to do.

So, at around about the 1,000 day period what was being discussed was all the intra-fighting raging on the “Pro” camp. The McCann themes became nothing but background music.

So the first thing that happened during the 1,000 days was that the topics discussed had basically strayed away from its central topic to pure homemade BH clutter between less than 10,000 people or not even half of that.”

“Right.”

“The SECOND thing that happened was the second and most important conclusion that one can take from the monkey experiment I just spoke of.”

“Ah, finally!”

“See, you didn’t have to wait that long. Impatience is a thing the BHs explore a lot and that’s one, among so many reasons, they’re afraid of our blog. They know that patience is our family's middle name.

Anyway, when do you think that particular experiment was considered a success by the scientists?”

“When all the monkeys that had been shocked were out of the cage, so when monkeys A, B, C and D were out and monkeys E, F, G and H stopped trying to go for the banana?”

“Not totally right, but almost there. I would say that it was when monkey I stopped trying”

“Why a monkey later?”

“It’s the monkey that confirms the results. Although monkey H was the first to be stopped by 3 “unshocked” monkeys, it is monkey I that confirms success. You weren’t far off as you can see.

So when monkey I stopped trying, what happened?”

“I don’t know! Maybe the scientists went to nearest pub to celebrate or each one went home…”

“You’re absolutely right!”

“I am?”

“Yes, you are! And by your expression I can see that you don’t know why you’re right.

You’re right because there was a power shift.”

“Huh?”

“What stopped the first monkeys, A, B, C and D going for the banana was the switch the scientist had in his hand and which he activated whenever a monkey went up the ladder, right?”

“Right.”

“So until the monkeys were “educated” otherwise, the power was in the scientist’s hand.

When the monkeys took upon themselves, unwittingly, the task of stopping other monkeys going up the ladder, the power to “save” the banana was no longer with the scientist but with the monkeys!

That’s why the scientists could go home and celebrate.”

“Oh, I get it! And how is that applicable to the GMW?”

“Well, if initially you had a set of controlling players, the "scientists", after 1,000 days of conflict the power had shifted long ago to the “monkeys”.

And these "scientists" were pretty much satisfied with the “monkeys”.”

“How’s that?”

“They had been able to contain with success the unexpected Summer Offensive of 08.”

“Summer Offensive of 08? Unexpected?”

”Yes, the public release of the PJ Files and Amaral’s book! 

The first was so unexpected that I bet that most of those who “helped” in the cover-up wouldn’t have done so or, at least, have their names in it, if they even suspected that the public would be able to see what they had done and said. An elderly lady comes to mind… but not only her. So many others.”

The second, the book, no one expected the man to have had the courage to have done what he did!

Both these actions greatly hindered the BH cause and the defensive campaign to maintain the focus on the McCanns and only the McCanns proved to be highly successful. No one talked about the “apple tree” although she was all over the PJ Files as we’ve proven time and time again.

So the scientists were happy to leave the monkeys to do the business and went on with their lives, thus completing the power shift cycle.

In the eyes of the “deciders” the “monkeys” were doing a good job so all they basically did after that was to turn their heads on the Maddie case and give it a glance from time to time, progressively at  bigger and bigger intervals.

Look at the tabloids as an example. During “The McCann Hunting party 07” they were mere enablers and nothing more than that. They received instructions and executed them. They helped, a lot, to get the message across, but weren’t in the centres of decision.

During the first months of the GMW, they maintained that status but with time began acting more and more alone much to the pleasure of their “trainers” who witnessed a “job” being well done.

Soon the “trainers” felt comfortable enough to “go home or celebrate”. They were completely sure that the “banana” would still be there the next morning.

This meant that the tabloids stopped being enablers to become real players of the game with power to decide because the “deciders” left the “manning” up to them.

And we had a clear indication how much their role changed by the way they treated Brown before, during and after the 2010 elections:

In Brown’s time they were dedicated helpers but with Cameron they became deciders.”

“Yes, but Brown and Cameron are far too big to be involved in the Maddie Affair, at least directly!”

“Yes, not only will I not dispute that, as I’ll agree with you. I’m just trying to reinforce the fact that after 1,000 days the BHs’ “Centres of Decision” were populated by different people from those in the beginning of the conflict.

Both by the comfort felt by the “initial team” that things were being done well as in the fact that the tabloid media gained another relevance that it didn’t have with the former government.

And that’s the third thing that happened.”

“What thing?”

“The THIRD thing that happened was there was there was a change of Government in the UK. Brown out, Cameron in.

This had two consequences. The first is that it changed all the links and connections of the Dark Cloud “Guests’ Nepotistic Network”.

Mind you, these links and connections didn’t change because of the Maddie case. The case was but one of many “board games” that were being played then and are being played as we speak and will be played in the future.

Nepotism adapts to the circumstances quickly, so the change of any government in any country means a rapid adaptation of all ongoing nepotistic networks.”

“Logic”

“The second consequence is that all those within the British Government who had handled this subject when it was really HOT were now replaced.

Those who had direct interest in the issue when they had worked so hard to contain it and had put their names at risk, were now being replaced by those "just" inheriting a problem, and not directly involved in it, so although the interest was maintained the engagement wasn't the same. Besides, the Maddie issue was dwindling away as "planned"

With the change of the nepotistic connections to the new government so also changed, in the GMW, the connections to the "monkeys" in control of operations. Not for the better, nor for the worse. They just changed.

For example, a "monkey" A, who used to connect with person B on a certain subject in the beginning of the conflict, began now to connect about the same issue with person C.

"Monkey" A stopped connecting with decider B but started to connect with decider C."

“Continuing to be logical.”

“The FOURTH thing that happened in those 1,000 days was the effects that the intangible value of the McCann “logo” had on the BH camp.

“The what?”

“Not talking about the logo of the good marketing ploy that exploited Maddie’s non-existent coloboma. I’m speaking about the McCann name itself.

It became a true household name.”

“Yes, it did… but that meant what?”

“It meant that the all 9 people that made up the "T9" were quickly incorporated into the single “the McCanns” term.

If one is to speak about Maddie to anyone, the McCann name will pop up but if one is to ask with whom they spent their holidays the best answer one will get will be a vague “their friends” or maybe a “their doctor friends” if the person is more versed in the subject. They won’t be able to tell how many friends there were and much less any of their names.

The consequence of this concentration on the McCanns was that it provoked a natural bitterness from the other members of the group. If in those first months the T9 had very little to say about their own fate, the T7 had even less.

We know that all that friendly patting on the McCann’s back were more like daggers than anything else, but to ignorant eyes they were meant to appear as heartfelt tokens of friendship.

And the T7 were as ignorant as the rest of us about the BHs intent.

And bitterness why? Because they saw that the McCanns were getting protected and they weren’t. That the McCanns had very expensive legal help and they had none. That the McCanns were the “Teacher’s pet” and they were left to play alone in the schoolyard.

Here, David Payne becomes a pivotal character. Irrelevant of what happened in the early evening of May 3rd. The subject we’re discussing here and now is the GMW and not about what happened on that day."

“Right. Go on.”

“You must take into account that the McCanns were newcomers to this sort of event but other T7, namely the Paynes, weren’t. We make this assumption based on the fact that it was Payne who organized the "tennis" holiday.

Making a judo analogy, imagine that all those who participated in the event in PdL were ranked according to their “swinging-belt".

The colour of that belt wasn’t obviously attributed in accordance with the number of times one participated in these sort of events but of an accumulation of social relevance, participation and trustworthiness.

This meant that if you didn’t have the required social status, the best that you could ever ascend to would be to brown swinging-belt. The black swinging-belts and the black swinging-belts with “dans” were reserved to those who were significantly important.

Gerry's "F-Off, we're not here to have fun" rant suggests that they weren't exactly off to a holiday but either to work or to some initiation rite. 

PdL's Ocean Club has shown that it had the most diverse facets of entertainment and otherwise such as tennis, various watersports and even visits to water parks, but  although having the most sought after poolside bar in the world we're still to hear anything about having conference rooms or any other facilities where collective working meetings could take place. 

If it had, I imagine that the use of PdL's Church wouldn't have been the one we all witnessed that particular Summer.

So with the "not here to have fun" we can safely assume the McCanns didn't go on a work trip but the rant is consistent with the anxiety felt by those being "initiated" into something. We believe it to be into a very restricted upper-class swinging group. 

This means that the McCanns were just white-swinging belts, at least in an event with the "importance" as the one that took place at PdL, while the Paynes’ swinging-belts were already blue or even brown.

We have no idea what colour to attribute to the swinging-belts of the other T4. What’s important to remember is that with the Paynes’ unhappiness, other blue/brown swinging-belts present within the Guests also became unhappy.

This will be important when I’ll speak about the Black Hat Gangs.”

“What Gangs?!?”

“With time the BHs disaggregated between themselves but I’ll talk about this another time. Not today, another time, ok?”

“Ok”

“Back to our “swinging/judo”. The first thing that happened the moment Maddie died was that the swinging-belts stopped to being swinging-belts."

"They did?"

"Yes, because from that moment on, the swinging stopped being the alternative lifestyle being practiced to become the secret to be hidden. 

So all the belts stopped being swinging-belts to become BH-belts.

This change also happened because very soon people who had nothing to do with swinging were summoned to help solve the problem. These people, who were relevant deciders in the process, were BH but not swingers.

What colour do you think were the BH-belts “worn” by those who made up the initial “BH Decision Centre”?"

“The highest ranking ones, obviously... black with the highest number of “dans” ?”

“Exactly. And it was maintained that way during the first crisis days of May 07. As the Guests’ Nepotistic Network Dark Cloud grew in size so it grew with the number of "dans" of the BH-belts of the deciders who incorporated it.

If in the beginning you had 1st and 2nd “dan” black BH-belts, when “The McCann Hunting Party 07” was recalled you had more of the sort of 6th “dan” and up only in the BH “Decision Centre”

That doesn’t mean that all the white / yellow / orange / green / brown and black BH-belts didn’t remain active. They and their families were the first concerned that the PdL Secret remained exactly that, a secret.

So they populated the various blogs and forums with various nicknames where, keep in mind, ONLY the characters INSIDE the nice and neat white picket fence were to be discussed. 

That's why you had that surprising high number of people who seemed to support the McCanns no matter how evident the evidence was against them!

It was at this level, the “low status-coloured-BH-belts” that things started to desegregate between the BHs.

To the Payne "resentment" one has to add the public humiliation that Jane Tanner was subjected to in the Mockumentary by "Billy-the-Kid" himself, or as he’s known, Gerry McCann.

The intra-fights between the BHs weren’t public like the “pretendy” “WH” cat-fights. But they existed. And were fierce and ruthless.

With the “monkeys” taking over daily operations, so did the importance of “low status-coloured-swinging-belts” grow in the various blogs and forums.

You had an almost victorious BH “Army” that was highly fractured on the  inside. The BHs were far from being as united after 1,000 days as they had been at the beginning of the conflict."

"See your point."

The FIFTH thing that happened was theme-saturation."

"I'll wait for the explanation..."

"In these 1,000 days the Maddie issue became really cumbersome to Britain. It became a non-grata topic to be absolutely avoided in any conversation.

The embarrassment could physically be felt whenever a Brit had to strike up a conversation with a non-Brit. The silence about it was terribly patronizing.

The handling of the Maddie issue was harming seriously UK's image externally. Even if not mentioned, as it wasn't, the subject was there, in the background, an omnipresent shadow of institutional shamelessness.

So, with the entrance of the new government, led by David Cameron, there was a true hope among the general public that it would end this Maddie scandal once and for all, and the McCanns would finally face the music!

So the FIVE things to remember that happened in the first 1,000 days are:

ONE, the topics discussed, by around only 5,000 people, had basically strayed away from the McCanns to “WH” intra-fighting;

TWO, there was a power shift, from the “scientists” to the “monkeys” so that those in the BH Centres of Decision weren’t the same people who were there at the beginning of the conflict;

THREE, a change of Government in the UK meant that the Nepotistic Network had to adapt quickly and the connections between the BHs and the politicians changed or were in process of changing;

FOUR, the BH Camp was crumbling from the inside with bitter fighting between the various factions;

FIVE, Britain was tired of the Maddie issue and was really looking forward for it to end. 

This is how things were at 1,000 days of GMW. Got it?”

“Loud and clear, Ma’am!”

“And that is when Textusa launched the GMW’s Pearl Harbour.”

“Yes, you did speak of that yesterday…”

“Yes, I did, and I’ll leave it for tomorrow, if you don’t mind.”

“But you said…”

“Tomorrow.”

“No!”

“Yes.”


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