Especially how and what we eat.

the games were played along time ago we are now the 3rd generation enforcers. Beating up people for reasons we really know nothing about - it's societal conditioning.

Nice one! I told you the other day it's good to Verify truth. just because someone says he's sorcerer, don't believe it. Go an verify. We have a mind, use it. Verify what the people are saying. Don't be like the monkeys, joining in the beating without asking why, like some people, when people say yes, they say yes. When they say no, you say no. Don't just follow.

We're told to listen to what people are saying, because in that listening you might learn something. If you're told something which is true and you refuse, that's arrogance.

This is Kenya masukuma. You should know better than post that nyef nyef picture. And why are they calling us monkeys?

Question(s).

1. Was it foolish or unreasonable for the monkeys to keep the institution of the climbing of ladders? Or rather, was it important for them to know 'why'?

My opinion is that knowing why in this case would be totally irrelevant. They didn't even know or ask why they were where they were from the very beginning. So asking 'why' in the nth generation is useless. The game had already been validated.

2. What insights are applicable to humans?

Reality is a construction that is easily reified. And more often than not humans make monkeys of themselves.

For example, if we can think the 'west' makes the 'Africans' monkeys then we are monkeys indeed.

I do not think that is what Mukiri meant. His is more to do with 'traditional' diets vs 'westernized' diets.

I always wonder who taught us that chai as we know it must always be a mixture of milk, water and tea leaves...

Heard about "Nipee Bamba 20 ya Airtel?"

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They would probably lynch him, especially if he has been a generous guy sharing his food.

Anyway, that is a flimsy explanation. What would make one go chasing monkeys especially after he has discovered eating easier-to-get vegetation can fill his stomach?

I think that it is the eating of vegetation that has been rained upon by westernization such that today anyone who eats e.g. masukuma regularly is considered 'rural' or 'poor'. And is stigmatized.

@masukuma the part where you said a long time ago, there might be a possibility people went through a phase of trial and error in food and all other complex things we have today. I believe otherwise myself, and it is easy to prove.

Evidence of this is:
If you analyze the complexity of language, "primitive" people would not have developed linguistic complexities that we see today. In fact, if it were true that complexity grows with time, how come we don't use even a quarter of a language. I don't think there is anyone who knows half of my vernacular. That means, the less than half is adequate for survival, so how was it possible to develop the 100% in the first place? For what purpose if 50% is enough to communicate?

And this applies to all human languages the world over are equally complex.

My conviction
The first human was not ignorant creature.

He didn't acquire knowledge gradually.

He was not a pagan who came to know source of creation later.

He was not a dumb creation who learned language out of his own evolutionary faculties.

He didn't lead a life of beast and evolved civilization later.

Rather he was provided by faculty of thought and speech, freedom of choice.

Was taught to know creator from start. And was created in best of forms. Creator spoke to him, and he obeyed the designer or creator.