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“There is a fiendishly simple method of trapping monkeys in Africa that suggests the paradoxes that confront ‘choice’ in our era of global consumerism. A small box containing a large nut is affixed to a well-anchored post. The nut can be accessed only through a single, small hole in the box designed to accommodate an outstretched monkey’s grasping paw. Easy enough for the monkey to reach into, but when it makes a fist to clasp the nut, impossible for the monkey to withdraw. Of course it is immediately evident to everyone (except the monkey) that all the creature need to do to free itself is to let go of its prize. Clever hunters have discovered, however, that they can secure their prey hours or even days later, because the monkey – driven by desire – will not relinquish the nut. It will die first (and often does)” (Barber 52)
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:33:49 +0000

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