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Could autistics keep the future from becoming something out of Brave New World?
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Could autistics keep the future from becoming something out of Brave New World?

I recently decided to re-read Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, both by Aldous Huxley. In Brave New World, society is too social and the world is over-populated. In Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley says that we need to use birth control and increase the average IQ as some of the few out of many steps to keeping the future from becoming a Brave New World.
The average IQ for autistics is higher than the average IQ for NTs, so if we kept autistics around, the average IQ would be bound to increase. Since LFAs almost never marry and have children and the chances of a HFA marrying and having children is only 1 in 11 (only about 9%), just having autistics around might decrease population because they'd take up space in families and then few of them would have children. Also, everyone knows that autistics are not as social as NTs, so if we kept them around, it might mean the prevention of society becoming too social like in Brave New World.
With these points in mind, society shouldn't be looking at autistics as defective, but as the solution to the problem of our society quickly becoming a Brave New World. Your thoughts on this?


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Could autistics keep the future from becoming something out of Brave New World? - Johanna - 08-26-2008 06:29 PM

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