I have a question today

Why does my sister think of Scotland sheep herding as a perfect occupation? Why do other people go to other countries or see other professions and cultures and feel an extreme sense of longing to stay there? The real question though is whether this is a matter of local mental preference, or overall ingrained specialization that formed over the hundreds or thousands of years that our ancestors spent in early specialization of labor. I know that some of mine and my sister's ancestors were shepherds, but I also know that my sister has been unhappy with most occupational prospects her whole life.

This brings me to several possible testable theories.

1. During the time that our ancestors maintained the same societal functions generation after generation, a genetic propensity towards those functions was formed. Making it possible for a person who has spent their whole life in a modern American culture, to maintain those same draws towards a very different culture that an ancestor once kept.

2. During the time that our ancestors maintained themselves in the same society, they also maintained the same geographic location. Physically it is fairly easy to get an idea of the geographic region that a person's ancestors came from. With that there may be another draw that is coded into how our brains develop, that maintains a propensity towards a certain geographic type. This would push the draw away from sheep and towards the scenery itself.

3. These possibilities are not the case, and each of us develops our occupational and geographic dreams or desires independent of our genealogical pasts.

possible experiments to come...

Interactocracy

It is time for governments to be closer to the people. The technology of the internet offers several routes to this goal, but the key really must be starting at lower levels and growing outward. The seed that must be planted is direct communication between representatives and the people. An easy way to implement this is to establish a populous poll site run by the government that allows people to communicate through multipartisoned surveys that both educate people briefly on possible actions being taken and then allows the person to select and submit their view from among the possible actions. This obviously can't immediately be a voting process, but will instead put data in front of the representative that can give them more confidence that they are doing what the people need them to do. With or without this idea there must be further initiatives to give universal access to the internet. Poverty or lack of education should not keep swimmers from the ocean. We are not I, it is together that we must be.