[LMB] OT: if civilization fell

[Elizabeth McCoy]

At 9:55 PM -0600 2/3/08, Mark Allums wrote:
>>> This brings up an interesting question: what would you have to offer
>>> if civilization fell?
>
>Alas, I'd be dead by now.

And I'd be under a slow death sentence, fatigued and dizzy, mind fogged,
probably winding up tucked in someone's attic, basement, or living room 
(if docile enough), in a state of dementia like my grandfather was.

(Not to mention the occular histoplasmosis, which appears to be in
remission, but which _could_ show up again. Though, happily, the
eye doctor has decreed that my checkups shall be yearly and not 
six-monthly, as of the last visit. Still, blindness in one or both
eyes... And we won't go to the Pre-eclampsia place.)

I'm keeping civilization, methinks. Or at least technology. Sewing by hand 
is something I can sort-of do, and I can crochet ad-lib mittens, and I 
suppose I could teach people how to "talk good"... But I needs me my
tech.

At 8:01 PM -0500 2/4/08, Stewart Dean wrote:
[...]
>When the Ghetto was cut off and people were slowly starving, the autopsies 
>showed progressively better cardiovascular health.  By the Ghetto's fall, no 
>one had heart disease.

Does that show that heart disease was being "cured" by lack of food,
or does it show that the conditions caused those who had heart disease
to die first, though?
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