I already knew what I believe it to be teaching so I guess nothing.
Then I believe it would be best to share what you had reinforced in your mind, since most of us were just too stumped to get it.
I am not saying my interpretation is the correct one. I could be wrong. It is just my general observation based on my own experience and what I gleaned from the story.
My apologies if anyone mistook what I said as me knowing better than anyone else but I did say the above.
I believe the story to be a social commentary. Humans and Monkeys are 2 separate species. Yet, as I read the story it shows us, that some of our own actions, can make us look inseparable. Monkey see, Monkey do … or the conditioned mob mentality as pictured in the story has no valid place in humans “evolved” sense of being, yet we exhibit this behavior just as brutally and easily as the monkey’s in the story do. The other side of the same coin is the humans who take over the experiment and do nothing to stop the monkeys. They apparently assume that this is the way things are and turn a blind eye to it.
This is what I saw in the story. No over analyzing, no wishful thinking, no going to google and finding words that make me sound smarter than the average bear. It was the only thing that came to mind when I saw the post.
Thanks for taking the time to share.
One last question… did you learn that this type of behavior is a bad thing -and/or- did you learn that it is actually what happens?