Find me a sci-fi movie where there is a Utopia, and I will point out the worm in the apple. Every single time we are presented with a Utopian society on film, there is also a corrupt diplomat that's running the show, or it's a dream world, or it's built on a city of good-hearted underground dwellers... You know what I'm saying because you've all seen such movies before.

So I'm going to make a broad statement and say: There is no such thing as Utopia in science fiction.

The prototypical example of this, and perhaps the genesis of this whole meme, is H.G. Wells' classic The Time Machine. In it, the Utopian race of the Eloi lives in blissful harmony, at least on the surface. In fact, their society is completely dependent on the bestial Morlocks. Both races depend on each other for survival, and neither is complete as a species.

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