Schizo‑Autist Cultural War

A cultural conflict frame: rising digital/entrepreneurial elites disproportionately reward autistic‑type traits (responsiveness, systemizing) while marginalizing schizotypal creative traits (associative imagination), shifting who gains institutional power in media, funding, and prestige. High-profile episodes — Helen DeWitt declining a prize and winning a private grant from Tyler Cowen — act as visible symptoms of this underlying contest over cultural valuation. — If institutions and funders prefer and normalize one cognitive style, that can reshape hiring, funding, and what kinds of creative and intellectual work are rewarded across society.