On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
I don't know what the reference to the "100th Monkey" means
A book by that name reported on an experiment and study of monkies on two isolated but nearby islands. Seems that when enough monkies on one island developed behavior patterns (induced by the experimenters) monkies on the nearby island of the same breed began to exhibit the same behavior. I tagged the article such, I suppose, to query whether there might not be a growing psychological consensus brewing, along the lines of, say, "Don't like the weather? Just wait a while -- it'll change." I don't expect the media-dulled American public to act any particular way, but do expect there might be enough believers to create a cultural cliche, which over much time may make a subtle change in some unexpected way. Is that vague enough? Dan
