Nietzsche feared that the drive toward equality would cause people to become more mediocre. If you look at morning talk shows, you see how accurate Nietzsche's predictions were. We tend to get all teary-eyed whenever we hear the word "equality" mentioned, but might equality be a double-edged sword and a mask? Once upon a time, it was taken as a given that hierarchy and rank existed in a society, yet today the mere thought that anyone could be "better" than us is difficult to absorb. Kleist's novel Michael Kohlhaas showed how equality is often just a drive toward revenge. Korach, though wanting to be more privileged, still saw slavery as the land of Milk and Honey.