What is the Monkeysphere?

Cracked.com ^ | David Wong

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

First, picture a monkey. A monkey dressed like a little pirate, if that helps you. We'll call him Slappy.

Imagine you have Slappy as a pet. Imagine a personality for him. Maybe you and he have little pirate monkey adventures and maybe even join up to fight crime. Think how sad you'd be if Slappy died.

Now, imagine you get four more monkeys. We'll call them Tito, Bubbles, Marcel and ShitTosser. Imagine personalities for each of them now. Maybe one is aggressive, one is affectionate, one is quiet, the other just throws shit all the time. But they're all your personal monkey friends.

Now imagine a hundred monkeys.

Not so easy now, is it? So how many monkeys would you have to own before you couldn't remember their names? At what point, in your mind, do your beloved pets become just a faceless sea of monkey? Even though each one is every bit the monkey Slappy was, there's a certain point where you will no longer really care if one of them dies.

So how many monkeys would it take before you stopped caring?

That's not a rhetorical question. We actually know the number.

[JoeProBono]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Very interesting.

[PowderMonkey]

I am not amused...

[Leo Carpathian]

[MortMan]

I thought the monkeysphere was the space between ole’ Barack’s Jug Ears.

[RichInOC]

[RichInOC]

[mo]

The “monkeysphere” .....

Christianity recognizes ALL as individuals. “The Monkeysphere” is of the same mindset that creates “identity politics”as an excuse to disregard the importance and significance of individuals and their freedoms in society.

The Monkeysphere is a paradigm to sucker people into not even bothering to need to try .....because when individuals do try to recognize all as individuals with their respective freedoms...it ALL JUST GETS IN THE WAY OF THE ALMIGHTY STATE

[Randy Larsen]

Sure...

Just don’t get caught spankin’ your monkey!

[Kirkwood]

I love the fact that Nesmith sued PBS for $48.8 million and won.

[Hot Tabasco]

Imagine you have Slappy as a pet.

Can't imagine that, I hate monkeys and slap them whenever I come in contact with them............

[Washi]

Talk radio's Rush Limbaugh is known to tip 50% at restaurants, but flies into a broadcast tirade if even half that dollar amount is deducted from his paycheck by "The Government." That's despite the fact that the money helps that very same single mom he had no problem tipping in her capacity as a waitress.

...aaaaaand another thing: the waitress is being tipped based on her performance for a job well done....she's not receiving "re-distributed" money simply for being a single mom.