I subscribe to the hundred monkey theory. The first few monkeys are considered idiots because they’re going against the trend. As the indicators stack up showing that maybe they’re not so dumb after all a few more monkeys change direction and join them. This keeps building – with the two factions remaining in opposition – as the one side grows from the minority towards being the majority and the other side losing their membership accordingly.
All semblance of parity between the two groups changes when the hundreth monkey joins in. At that point all the remaining monkeys change course and follow the new majority.
We Piggington’s were among the first monkeys, and we suffered no small amount of rotten bananas and whatever else monkeys tend to throw. But now our ranks are growing and we only occasionally get the straggler who waffles back and forth between the two groups. We have yet to get to our 100th monkey, but we’re also not on the recieving end of the rotten bananas anymore.
