Yearning for equality....

Quest for equality has become one of the most predominant virtues of modern society, a founding principle of democracy. The Americans and the French pioneered the idea after great revolutions in their lands. Others followed suit as and when they were able to... that is, when they were able to come out of the clutches of colonialism themselves. But has any society achieved it? More pertinently, is equality achievable at all? Or do we simply need to confine equality to a fixed boundary and leave the rest to, well, nature...

Let me put some questions that come to my mind when I think of equality in a society.

• Are all new borns equal?
  
• Does a government, and its agents, avowed to the principle of equality, act in a manner that befits equality in its letter and spirit?
  
• Can the Marxist dream of a classless society ever be achieved?
  

The answers to these questions should have been in the affirmative but one does not have to be Einstein to see that this is not the case. What is the solution then? Or rather, what is the problem, with the society or with us? Is the idea of equality too utopian for human society to enforce? Or is the ever benevolent Mother Nature against the idea herself?

I will try to ponder over this, as I request anyone reading this blog to ponder as well...

Looking for your comments...