Star Trek is a happy fantasy land utopia because they have magic machines that can produce infinite food, clothes, and just about anything else you can imagine.
Unfortunately, we don't have magic machines to make infinite goodies like in Star Trek. Which is why trying to setup a Star Trek Utopian society is doomed to bankruptcy. At least until we invent the magic infinite goodie machines.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
