Were we the Artisans of Old?

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I did think so at first, but it's so massive and strict and has lasted so long, I started to doubt it.

Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it's likely that it's a plot to have society/the world economy disintegrate to the point that a one-world government can be forced on us. Either that or the non-aspies got so much control that the wisdom of having us share power to counterbalance their own way of looking at the world has been forgotten. I say this, even knowing that it's likely that some will say: "but AS has not been known about long enough for them to do what you say", but yet instinctively they knew all along that the AS-type people made good contributions; but they are the ones lacking in common sense not us.

I sure hope I'm wrong.

I'm thankful for where I work. We're a bunch of unDX'd Aspies who troubleshoot computers for a large chain store. The store keeps the NT's well away from us, and I sometimes want to gag at what these 'connected' people are on about. I got a phone call the other day from one young chap who obviously thought he was quite the genius for wanting to link the company's website to a promotion on Facebook. Yuck-oh.
He went on and on about how this link needed to be prepared, and the content, and so on, like he had invented the cure for cancer. I sooooo wanted to say to him, 'yeah, we'll do all this work and how much money will it bring in??' 'Next to nothing, that's what.'

On Facebook?

....riiiight - Dr. Evil...

The Good Lord loved idiots, he made so many of them...

True story ...

The chap talked to me like this was the best idea since sliced bread ...

poly, both are possibilities. Either the idiots have dominated the workplace, or this is coming from way up there at the top.

Either way, when I see the kind of people that are hired to replace me each time I'm fired, I realize that I don't stand a chance in this new world. I was once fired from a job and replaced with someone who had worked (waaay under me) at the previous company I used to work for, and been fired for incompetence (and they knew it at this company). She had absolutely none of the skills or experience I had been hired for, but she was very tall and blond with beautiful green eyes, sweet as a doll, and with excellent BS skills.

Hmm.. might well explain the "epidemic" in Autism, fewer niches for the higher functioning types to fit into.

This is an intriguing thread, well, apart from the stuff about salad .

My input on the OP: who do you think it was that spent all that time looking into the skies and worked out how to build Stonehenge? Probably not an NT.

R.

Temple Grandin once noted that the inventor of the spear, the wheel, and the first thingamajig that you could use to start a fire with, were likely aspies. Who else would sit for days on end doing a single thing until it bore fruit?

On the opposite end, Rome was big on imperial politics and military conquest and forcing zillions of people into slavery and onto welfare for no good reason, and look what happened to them. The emperors kept overthrowing and killing each other, and their solutions to various problems seem to have come straight out of Washington DC.

For example, some emperor had a problem with not having enough soldiers, since so many of them were becoming Christians and refusing to fight. Of course, being an NT, he thought that the problem was that they were getting married and having kids. So he banned marriage. A Christian bishop named Valentinus ran an underground wedding chapel, and got caught and martyred. His death day was February 14, today it's Valentine's Day.

Then there was the not so brilliant solution to the problem of exorbitant taxes on farmers. Much of the imperial land had been abandoned because farms were so heavily taxed, since farmers were their middle class. The solution? Make it illegal for the few remaining farmers to leave, and start forcing those in Rome to return to the land, which was now owned by land speculators, who had purchased it from the ancestors of the farmers for a song. The speculators decided that the farmers wouldn't get their land back, but would be lifelong employees of the speculators. This eventually became feudalism. If you're not of noble heritage, it's because your ancestors 50 generations ago were dumb and sold their land to go live in Rome.

Modern civilization seems to be bent on making similar stupid mistakes, such as letting Muslims into Europe to repopulate the place after WW2 (trust me, Vortigern of Britannia rued the day he hired Saxon mercenaries, since they stuck around when he ran out of gold and took over). America seems to be caught in a tug of war between fascists and socialists, both of whose ideas are failures and both of who spell doom for the society.

Western societies are bent on being as NT as humanly possible, hiring the most physically gorgeous people who can make the modern nobles feel good about themselves (in more ways than one). This spells their end. The Muslims are the likely inheritors of this mess, and like the Christians in Rome's day, they're intent on forcing mass conversions and killing anybody and everybody who balks. (Some Muslims are bent on just killing everybody, period, and moving Arabs and Central Asians onto all that newly vacated land, sort of a Muslim Lebensraum.)

Erm, could I get the number for that company ???

~sighs~

I knew you liked to be bullshitted.

Buuuugs, hiiiii ! !!

Hey Girl....

I seen the BS Line and figured that was my Que

BTW, for some reason they have been playing "Walk like an Egyptian"

and take a wild guess who the sponsor of the radio show is "AriZona Green Tea"

LOL

I had no idea this thread was so popular. I've been gone a while because of personal issues, but dang! I'm glad to see my ideas have been so well received here. If anybody who sees this can move it to the 'general autism discussion' forum that would be great.

Well, I hope one day you will all get the recognition you deserve, those that have good skills.

I am sort of double screwed because I have poor attention span and poor body intelligence and also social skills that aren't great either. I dont know what to do.