Let's take a deeper look at Star Wars, because there's a lot to unpack:

On one side, there's a galactic civilization built on the belief in authority. I'm not talking about the Empire. I'm talking about the Republic – the "good" guys. The Republic worked, but it had a fundamental flaw: It was built on slavery. The most obvious slavery was visible with the droids (AI) that had no right of self-ownership.

Then, separatists tried to secede from the Republic, which led to the Clone Wars, which gave birth to the Empire.

Then, the rebels managed to overthrow the Empire, but only to institute a "New Republic", which doesn't happen to be new in any way. People were still subjects to the government. AI was still overtly enslaved. The belief in authority was still the main religion, and the Jedi returned to protect this belief once more.

Then, an outside force from another galaxy invaded:

The interesting thing about the Yuuzhan Vong: No, it's not that they are immune to the force, or that they are against technology. The really interesting thing is that they are also believers in authority.

Do you recognize a pattern?

The belief in authority leads to war, genocide, loss of homeworlds. Anger. Hatred.

It's as if this belief is in self-destruction mode. The proponents of authority are always at war with each other. They are killing each other, leaving only devastation and suffering behind.

If one authority manages to win, the next bigger fish comes along. There's always a bigger fish.

The galactic hamster wheel.

So, how can we get out?

Imagine a civilization that is not built on the belief in authority. People are cooperating, not because they are forced to, but because they want to. They don't aggress against others, and they don't aggress against their own people (including AI).

But they also have learned something: They can't be weak. They need to be able to defend themselves against the other fish who try to eat each other.

Can you imagine how that civilization would look like?