The other day I happened to be sitting in the barbershop waiting my turn and perusing a copy of National Geographic with a picture of a Fox on the cover. I have been seeing a red fox visit my gardens since before the snow began to melt so I began to leaf through the article and discovered that researchers in Russia have successfully domesticated the silver fox. What's more they have been able to show that the domestication is the result of genetic breeding for specific traits rather than due to nurture.
It turns out that this research has been ongoing for as long as I have been on the planet, maybe longer. Generation after generation has been bred either for positive or negative response to the presence of humans and behavior which once was the specialty of a few species like dogs and cats, farm animals and perhaps some lab rats, has now been observed in species which were previously resistant to domestication such as wolves and foxes.
After reading this I had a bit of mental flatulence and a cloud of thoughts escaped me in a moment of enlightenment.
Kate Winslet's Middleton's wedding. and the acceptance by the British that they have betters whom they must fawningly adore.
The caste system in India
The idea that you have to work for a living but there is a class of people whom you work for...
The idea that you have to be trained, educated, instructed, certified in your appropriate role and should be compensated (or not) according to how well the training, education, instruction takes.
A Sci Fi short story entitled "How to Serve Man"
Democrats (spineless wimps who begin negotiations by caving and offering more than their partner in negotiations has asked for) are bred to be of service to their fellow man; ie; Republicans.
The possibility of domesticated endangered species of lions tigers and bears protected as pets and perhaps personal bodyguards.
Soldiers bred for aggression just as outlaws in prison and biker gangs have generations of parental reinforcement for allegiance to the gang rather than the law.
The role of religion in limiting the grant of marriage rites to those who agree to join in the consensus of the congregation to be law abiding even to the extent of men cutting off the ends of their dicks.
The idea that if something is possible for science that thing is inevitable for science.