At the risk of posing a somewhat grandiose question, has humanity reached an evolutionary impasse? From the turn towards authoritarian rule to systemic racism to the climate crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, our problems seem to have taken on an intractable quality. Perhaps, the fact that I have Asperger’s Syndrome, which is now simply known as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), may help to explain why I pose far-reaching questions. It is said that we “Aspies,” “ASD individuals,” or “Aspergians” display a relentless penchant for getting to the “why” in most anything we set our minds to,