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Like that monkey experiment where they put food on top of a ladder but every time someone tries to get the food everybody gets sprayed with cold water. When they stop trying to get food they take one monkey out and put a new one in who gets beaten up by the others when it tries to get the food. So they substitute in new monkeys until none of the originals are left but they still beat up anyone trying to get the food although they don't know why.
This vaguely describes my tenure as a mod of a moderately large gaming server
Didn't a lot of traditions start this way? First they solved some problem, then they forgot the problem existed and continued to apply the solution
Yeah, probably.
Anyways, let's eat some non-pig meat and chop off some foreskins!
oh hey thats my my country! haiiii :3
any sources?
The experiment itself seems to have never actually happened.
https://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-banana-story-is-rubbish/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/games-primates-play/201203/what-monkeys-can-teach-us-about-human-behavior-facts-fiction
thank you