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/^t/"All men are equal: but some are more equal than others". Equality. What is equality? Obviously, the belief that all people living in this world have the right to have a similar social position and receive the same treatment, regardless of their apparent differences. We live in the world that is dominated by science technology and industrialization. The breathtaking technological advancement is visible everywhere. Societies all over the world differ a lot. People, despite the close of the twentieth century, are still being divided into the white, black, red, or yellow, the affluent and the poor, the old and the young, the unemployed and the employed e.t.c. There is no doubt that people are put into categories. They are judged on the basis of their colour of the skin, intelligence, income, abilities, dwellings, affluency or poorness. Such a categorization might threaten the precarious balance among human beings. There is no question about it, inequality is here. No one is unaffected either by racial prejudice, nationalism, explosion of technology or being simply an old person. Inequality poses a threat to our privacy, even to our concept of reality. Thus, the words written by George Orwell in "Animal Farm" that "All men are equal: but some are more equal than others" are still applicable to the reality we deal with. Although, as this century closes and we enter the first computational millenium, one of the great conflicts in civilization is the attempt to reorder societies, cultures e.t.c. preventing people from the "checks and balances" so delicately constructed in those previously "flourishing" centuries.