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Entry: A Tale of Two Normans: Podhoretz and Finklestein Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_tale_of_two_normans_podhoretz_and_finklestein#7981 Post contents: Adriana, you seem to think that anyone who favors a hierarchical society imagines that he will be running it. In fact, I would rather know my place in a hierarchy than be subject to either mob rule or (what usually happens) the rule of hidden manipulators in an egalitarian society. The Catholic Church is the most important society that I belong to and I am at the bottom of the hierarchy of that society with no voice whatsoever in choosing the rulers. But I am far happier with even the worst Catholic rulers I have experienced than with any of the rulers of the US or sub-divisions thereof in whose selection I had a vote. Sent at: 2008 05 15