SecretOpossumCabal wrote:
If the USA collapses, aspies are probably going to have a very, very, bad time. In fact, we're probably among the first to die in the post-apocalyptic scenario that follows. Actually, it would make for a kind of funny writing prompt, someone should write a story about aspies surving the post-apocalypse and mix it with comedy.
Then throw in some crazy sci-fi. like.... the government had secret bionic eyes technology that made peoples heads explode when they made eye-contact with the bionic eye, but because aspies avoid eye-contact, we've somehow managed to survive and form secret societies under the ruins of civilization.
Then an NT somehow manages to wiggle his way into this secret society, but in a world of aspies everyone assumes he's the crazy one, in a very Omega Man type of scenario. Witch-hunts spring out throughout the aspie society "There's an NT among us!" causing an uproar. The NT is at an advantage because, while the aspies are shooting at him with crossbows and spears, his gambit is to make eye-contact, causing them to look away and miss. Also everyone is extra-clumsy when they try to engage him in melee so he easily dispatches several aspies at once, thereby satisfying the action element of this story.
But eventully, through raw numbers, the aspies finally catch him, they blind-fold him to take away his secret power, and ultimately end up sacrificing him on an altar of their god, Awe-tyr-ism.
Anyways, you don't want society to collapse because that NT could well be a distant relative of yours.
Also,
All Hail Awe-tyr-ism!
Just like an American to think that we are the center of the universe.
There won't be an apocalypse if the USA collapses unless there is an all-out nuclear war. If we collapse life on this miserable little planet will go on in some form, even if it'll seem oppressive because we no longer have that resource-sucking leech called capitalism to provide us with luxury while third world countries around the world are dying of starvation and disease, not to mention all the wars and terrorists attacks that we are directly responsible for creating.
And ALL empires crumble eventually and yet the people in those countries still find ways to survive.