When one of the monkeys tried to climb to get one, the observers poured hot water on him and the other monkeys in the cage. He obviously retreated and gave up.

Moments later, a second monkey decided to try his luck and again hot water was poured on him and also on his fellow primates. When the third monkey tried to do the same thing, the others in the cage prevented him from doing so out of fear of the hot water.

Hours later, the scientists pulled out one of the monkeys who had been splashed with hot water and put a new one in his place.

Not knowing that he would be splashed with hot water, the new monkey immediately jumped to bring down a banana but the other monkeys prevented him. He did not know why.

Any new monkey who tried his luck was stopped by the remaining monkeys out of fear that he and them would be splashed with hot water.

All the monkeys inside the cage who had water poured on them were pulled out completely and replaced by new ones who had not seen what had happened to the old group.

The new ones did not try to get the bananas out of fear of the unknown that they had inherited from the other monkeys.

This experiment is representative of life for some human communities in the Third World countries, especially those that are always led by tradition and fear of the unknown.

Many of our habits and practices are down to an inherited fanaticism, individuality of opinion and many other things instilled in us by our ancestors.

They have become our faith and our religion with which we kill ambitions and slaughter initiatives. Whoever tries to jump over these traditions, whether at an individual or social level, will be castigated and accused of being a heretic.

Many officials in our government departments worship these obsolete rules and regulations and would not dare to violate them. In fact, they will defend them without asking for the reason behind their application.

The traditions and norms of the people are usually governed by the circumstances of their time and place. Do we have to impose these obsolete rules on the new generations who are living in different circumstances? Is this part of an innate social conduct or are these rules imposed on them by some sectors of society in order to control them and keep them suppressed?

In order to build a better future, we have to unchain all the fetters of the past and also the illusion of what we call "the specialty of our society."