[foxhedgehog]

When I worked at DoD, it was explained to me with an analogy of monkeys and ladders. You have a ladder, and at the top is a bunch of bananas. You rope the ladder with electrical tape, so that any monkey who attempts to climb is shocked. Eventually, the monkeys will socialize and prevent each other from climbing the ladder.

What's interesting is that this will continue even after you remove the electrical wire.

[jacalata]

Sounds like this mythical experiment - http://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-...

[martindelemotte]

Partially mythical, there were no bananas and if I remember well there were only two monkeys. [1]

[1] https://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural...