From Eunomia

• Why Star Wars is better than ‘Star Trek’. A child of the 1960s, I had grown up with the optimistic vision symbolized by “Star Trek,” according to which planets, as they developed technologically and politically, graduated to membership in the United Federation of Planets, a sort of galactic League of Nations or UN. When I first watched “Star Wars,” I was deeply shocked. The representatives of the advanced, scientific, galaxy-spanning organization were now the bad guys, and the heroes were positively medieval – hereditary princes and princesses, wizards and ape-men. Aristocracy and tribalism were superior to bureaucracy.
• After dire warnings of subversion from hawks and misguided enthusiasm for the same subversion from critics of U.S. hegemony, WikiLeaks has proved to be little more than a minor irritant.