Imagine no Heaven? No countries? No possessions? Robert F. Kennedy echoed such a utopian vision when he said "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask, "Why?" I dream of things that never were, and ask, "Why not?""

Such naive optimism, seeing the world as it should be instead of the way it actually is, has been an ultimate driver of misguided policies and the ensuing misery such policies cause. The German poet Friedrich Holderlin put it best when he said "What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven".