The most prevalent sentiment of the times is summed up in one word and that is 'equality'.

At every level and on all fronts including political, social and economic, the egalitarian gospel has been asserted as the way the light the truth.

The rights of the child are considered equal to those of the parent, the pupil's to that of the teacher, Jack is as good as his master, a professor of economics' political assessment judgement is neither superior nor inferior to that of an illiterate road labourer, each being provided with identical voting power. The obvious difference of nation, race and sex are nothing more than historic hangovers.

It is instilled in us from childhood the great evil of inequality while paying no regard to individual differences. The thrust of broader educational guidance is towards a collective responsibility where children are not encouraged to excel so much as they are to fit in.

When differences prevail they are condemned, so the All Black scoring a spectacular try hangs his head as he returns to the halfway mark in a facade of modesty and repentance for his individual assertiveness.

The egalitarian sentiment underlines the thrusts and trends of this ce

Not so, say the egalitarians. Insofar as inequalities exist they reflect distortions or abuses by the wrongfully superior or stronger faction and it is right and proper that the might of the state be imposed to effect a proper and fair levelling.

The world is changing, people now crave respect for their individual assertiveness no matter what its form.

To illustrate my point, It is an obvious fact that some people can run faster than others. If it was desirable that in this activity all runners be equal, no amount of hard line legislation or even agreement between the runners themselves, will allow the slowest to keep pace with the fastest.

The egalitarian dream is in contrast to reality and therefore can never be obtained, let alone sustained. Even those monstrous monuments to Marxism, Russia and China, with all their coercion, brainwashing and dogma saturation that is instilled in their citizens from childhood, remain pyramidical in their socio-economic order. They differ from the west only in that their stratification is cruder, divided into ruling and serving classes. Their ultimate goal is to form something resembling a school of fish, leaderless and responding only to a collective instinct. I would say that so far they have achieved a descent to the ant level in their fantastic march backwards down the evolutionary road.

So they slow down and over time reduce to a walk until eventually they are hardly moving at all. This makes the egalitarians ridiculously happy as it is not performance that they are concerned with but this mindless obsession with equality.

It is simply too easy to rationalise the absence of true equality of oppurtinty in the case of failures and use this as an excuse for further restrictions on everyone else.

Yet as far as the egalitarians and legislators are concerned, it is essential if a fair and equal situation is to prevail, and so it is achieved in the only way possible. The fastest runner is forced to reduce to the pace of the slowest to ensur

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