Why democracy is a bad system for aspergers

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Princess,
Aristocrats, in the platonic sense, have reached nirvana.

And understanding irony, thats a problem for a lot of people.


But you know, i am extremely wise.
There is plato and me, the two greatest philosophers.

You are not the first person to come on to this site to whine about the way about the way he has been treated by NT's Plotinus. You might want to visit this site, it could use some posts about how the government in an aspie controled nation should work.

I dont understand your last sentence , nobel c.

Sorry about the typo that I just corrected, if that is what was confusing you; or did you not understand that the word "this" is a link that will take you to another website that another Wrong Planet member started?

King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well how'd you become king then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

The saying is don't feed the trolls!, but I'll take the bate as this is Politics, Philosophy, and Religion. (Or perhaps his sense of irony just doesn't cross the language barrier very well.)

In Western countries like the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, we are raised early to believe in democracy. Well, we have more or less liberal democracies (a system of representational popular rule with constitutional limitations protecting individual rights) or social democracies (with a greater emphasis on societal guarantees for a standard of living). People like these systems because they've proven themselves to be comfortable and relatively free.

So the impulse to lord it over all the rest is anti-democratic and perceived as dangerous. This is why this thread has been more a discussion of Plotinus than of the idea he has proposed. The response is derision: mockery, ostracism. He holds an idea that offends the status quo here. That's not to say the visceral negative reactions aren't justifiable; clearly, they are, but I'd prefer to show why.

Western democracies have shown a trend towards greater inclusion and acceptance of minorities. Society still needs to be educated on the full range of autism spectrum conditions from profoundly disabling cases of autism to less visibly impairing cases of Asperger's syndrome. Greater understanding is being had of developmental differences, psychiatric disorders, and neurological conditions. We can make this progress because in a democracy like in the U.S. people can voice their concerns and pool resources for issues of social justice, and we have a legal system that respects certain fundamental rights for all people (again, with the usual caveat that the system isn't perfect). This only indicates a continuing need for education, understanding, and reform. Of course, we still have an elite class rather than societal equality, but a democratic system, especially as progressively more democratic reforms are made, will narrow that gap (some politicians seem to be bent on cementing in an American oligarchy).

An aristocracy makes no reform possible for the common wheal as their interest only goes so far as it advantages the nobility (you can see a continuum here between highly egalitarian, anarchic democracy and a rigidly hierarchical aristocracy on the other). Plotinus would want those "best fit rule" to mean the intelligent and the autistic (nominally us). So by circumstance of birth, we'd be granted much greater privilege, enforced by law. If we were born under another set of circumstances, Plotinus would have us treated as serfs. Additionally, such a system is highly disturbing to someone with a sense of empathy.