If Aspies Ruled The World

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I don't have a lot of inspiration, but I'll throw out a few and see if others are inspired.

...High School cheerleaders and football players would be bored on Saturday nights.

... Clothing style would be similar to Amish with particular styles and colors designated for particular people and task, with little change over decades.

... The most popular fist dates would be going to a library or bookstore, a museum or historic site, a symphony or play.

... Wars wouldn't be fought because the weapons that aspie scientist develop would be so horrendous nobody would want to use them.

... Wars also wouldn't be fought because the world leaders and diplomats would be logical and reasonable.

... The most popular students would be the honor students.

... Movies based on novels would follow the original story a lot more closely.

... Historical movies would be painstakingly accurate in detail.

... Reality shows would be more education oriented. American Idol would only show the good singers, the Dancing shows would tell more about the history of dance types. Hell's kitchen would have background about the dishes being prepared, between the scenes of the chef yelling at people.

... Things would be like a statement I remember from the novel "Madame Bovary," where tabloid newspapers would have critiques of Greek drama, and you'd have to travel to a Spanish monetary to find a dusty manuscript that told about what prince William wore to the polo match.

... We'd already have colonies on Mars.

Would there be rainbow ponies there as well? : )

Seriously, while there would be some advantages if Aspies ruled the world, I could see some downsides as well:

War would be started because someonehad a meltdown over someone elses stim which they found irritating.

The clothing you discribed reminds me less of the Amish & more of the cold war era Soviet Union.

While it's true that logic would rule, problems would still arise when people disagreed over who was more "right". Given the inability for aspies to see another persons point of view or perspective, this would lead to deadlock stalemates over minor issues.

There would much less art and much more function.

The world you've discribed seems very bland and colorless to me. It's all of the illogical, yet passionate things we love & do that make us human.

I'm just yanking your chain a bit but I'm not quite sure it would be the utopian world you are envisioning.

I wouldn't want to live in a world ruled by Aspies, actually, because the laws would be way too rigid and judges would not be able to take into account the parties' points of view. This can be an advantage in some cases, but actually I think a good judge is one who has both empathy and logic.

................It would be more peaceful, without a doubt, that is fact

I am being tongue in cheek. If Aspies ruled the world, unfortunately there would be less humor. Some Aspies, like me, get most jokes and are very good at making them, but it seems that most just don't get humor at all.

Flowers too, not just winged ponies and rainbows, and floating happy faces , and puppies.

Crime rates would be at an all-time low, everyone would trust everyone because no one would lie, abstract and impressionist art would diminish, and a new era of logic based art would begin, one could play games online without a caffiene infused twelve year old calling them a "fa***t," and aliens would decide to make contact.

There would be a day set aside for watching paint dry. It would be a National Day of some sort.

ruveyn

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1.) There will be a supranational world government already simply because Aspies would not see people as Indians or Namibians or Mexicans or Slovaks or Slovenes, but just as people
2.) War will be rare. (Indeed, it has become rarer and rarer lately because of catastrophic weapons for even minor hostilities). It is also important to note most wars are civil and internal wars now rather then multinational affairs. Two exceptions are of course the Darfur War and the Iraq War
3.) Terrorists would be discredited because their messages will be those of lunatics. Remember the Ides of March kind of people.
4.) IT technology would have advanced to the level that you could live in your computer, literally
5.) Mars colonies would have already been established
6.) There will be no dominant ethnic group in a country. Indeed, most Aspies I know, including myself are in intercultural/interracial relationships
7.) Robot technology would handle our mundane annoyances such as taking out trash and cooking

Here's my ideas..

The world would fall into more of a complete mess because your average aspie can't be arsed to do the most basic of things. He/she will more likely to s**t on the ground, wipe their arses with their hands and feel all smug about it.

I rather like the idea of a robot which does all the mundane things for me, I think that the first task for the robots is a dog walking machine which takes the dogs for walks while I am at work.

I am not sure about a Mars colonie, I think that unless a biomedical aspie comes up with a cure for radiation that the aspies will hold the view that travel to mars is a bad idea due to the large dose which the human in the space rocket would get.

If Aspies (with no social skills) ruled the world:
1) There would never be one world government because Aspies would insist on doing things their own way. Yeah, they would see people as people, but they would think "everybody sucks except for me".

2) War would actually be very common, but they would all be small scale, in contrast to the large scale wars of today. Large societies have large but relatively infrequent wars with each other. If Aspies ruled the world, they'd never be able to have a society that large and overarching because they'd insist on their own autonomous little fiefdom. Wars would be small, but often.

3) Everybody is a lunatic except you and your small circle of people you trust.

4) Progression of technology to an advanced level requires that knowledge of the technology be passed down from generation to generation consistently, and requires stable infrastructure to develop in the first place. Having constant wars will severely limit any ability to develop science and technology to any significant extent.

5) Mars colonies -- see #4

6) (the only one I agree with) The basic unit of the AS "society" would be a very close-knit family kind of group.

7) Robot technology -- see #4

Frankly, I think we have NT notions of "society" to thank for AS folks to contribute as much as they have, with respect to scientific progress. NT society also institutes a set of laws for a large group of people so that we all don't have to live in a constant predatory situation, as though we were in the Dark Ages or something. That being said, it is definitely possible for NT society to go overboard and restrict individual freedoms too much. I could make a similar list of "If NTs (without any AS notions of logic) Ruled the World" and it would be equally galling. That's why it's so critical to have a balance between NT and AS.

- Every day would be the first day of Spring.
- Every heart would have a new song to sing.
- We'd sing of the joy every morning would bring.
- Every man would be as free as a bird.
- Every voice would be a voice to be heard.
- We would treasure each day that occurred.
- It would be a beautiful place, where we would weave such wonderful dreams.
- Our world would wear a smile on its face, like the man in the moon when the moon beams.
- Every man would say the world was his friend.
- There'd be happiness that no man could end.
- Every head would be held up high.
- There'd be sunshine in everyone's sky, If the day ever dawned when we ruled the world.

An Aspie 'war' would probably involve four or five people standing awkwardly in a park, hitting each other gently with sticks until one of them suddenly drops their stick and launches into a 10-minute long monologue about the structure of mitochondria.

Restaurants would have private cubicles for each person. Movie theaters too.

I don't know what to say except... I literally loled

hold Nuremburg trials (similar to the preceedings against nazi war criminals after the second world war) against all those who bullied or participated knowingly in the bullying and abuse of aspies and those on the spectrum.

NTs should have the same rights to rule in order to ensure there is a balance and democracy, BUT those who have done wrong to us past and present should be held to account for their crimes against aspies the same way nazi war criminals were held to account for their persecution of the jews.