Whenever equality is imposed as an absolute, it is always equalized at the least common denominator, and historically, the least common denominator of mankind has been quite low indeed.

Culture masked truth - but there could be only one truth.

Any system that makes a man fear knowledge is an evil system.

...most people are sheep and are perfectly content to be led if they are guaranteed security, a home, job, protection, and a full belly.  In the whole history of humankind, whenever people demanded democracy and total independence and got it, they were willing and eager to trade their precious freedom for security - every time.  Every time.  To the strong-willed, the people who knew what to do and had the guts to do it.  The people who prize personal power above all else.

Humans have historically distrusted and disliked one another to the point of murder and war over such minor differences as religion, color, language, and the like.  That's one rationale Master System had for keeping each colonial world a homogenous race and culture.  Yet my children could never truly comprehend why a Crow or a Sioux or a Cheyenne - or a Janipurian or a Chanchukian or even an Alititian - should be judged in any way but by what kind of people they are.  But such things have always worked on a small scale, Nagy, particularly when we are crisis-driven or bound together by mutual self-interest, but never in the mass.  That is our tragedy.  Never in the mass.