On the desirability of inequality.

It seems to me that those who've observed that what animates Starlight Glimmer is a disgust that those around her do not act or think exactly as she would in a given situation are dead on the money. Her body language is that of one repulsed by the discovery that the childhood assumption that everyone is essentially the same and has the same knowledge of the world is all bollocks. While we never completely free ourselves of that idea that "I would do X in situation Y so it's weird and wrong that Z does W", we do know that on some level that we're being absurd and unfair.

Then again, we're not a dimwitted , solipsistic, over-educated and under-brained weirdo who thinks that she can make a social machine out of all the one part. You can't build a boat out of just rudders, you can't build an engine out of just pistons and you can't build a lasting society out of think- and act-alike drones. Forget the fact that they weren't thriving in Our Town and had to be bullied into not admitting it by a vain crackpot selling herself a stupid idea because she's what Ringer used to call a member of the Diaper Corps. They'd have died out because the ability to anticipate and react to danger tends to go away when groupthink takes hold. I can see a situation where they all equally insist that an unstable rock formation isn't going to fall merely because Dumbass doesn't see it coming and getting clobbered.