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psychohist
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11 Mar 2010, 12:25 am

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Could we honestly trust ourselves to make a better world for all of us? You know, end , war , poverty and inequality , use resources for constructive purposes , create and humanely enforce a new set of priorities for the mutual benefit of all people?

The world is too big and complex a place to make it better through central planning. Any such effort is doomed to backfire.

That said, I think smart aspies could build a framework that would promote efficiency in ways that would make things better for everyone. Most major governments are currently highly corrupted by personal influence from interest groups, and aspies would probably react less to personal influences and more to logic, which would be a change for the better.

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Are we really that noble? I'm not sure I am , and I'm not sure how I would deal with that kind of power.

I'm not sure that Asperger's has much to do with nobility, though perhaps the more limited capacity for self deception helps.



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11 Mar 2010, 12:44 am

I've done that experiment on myself. I get through each day, being myself. I bother nobody and no one bothers me. I find it easier than pretending to be what I'm not. I'm not like everybody else. :)


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11 Mar 2010, 5:33 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I've done that experiment on myself. I get through each day, being myself. I bother nobody and no one bothers me. I find it easier than pretending to be what I'm not. I'm not like everybody else. :)

I still ponder a lot about getting involved in a good community, but I must confess that the "community of one" approach gets round a lot of the problems.

Love the last sentence of your post - one of the best Kinks songs ever, IMHO. 8)