If civilization failed, if the medical scaffolding around diabetic life fell away, I suspect people with diabetes would be screwed.īut how screwed? This is something I think about fairly often. The thing that draws us to imagine the apocalypse is also the thing that keeps us (people with diabetes) alive. Industrial civilization, however, has also kept type 1 diabetes from becoming a private, miniature apocalypse for its sufferers (it was such an apocalypse for most of human history). Perhaps this is because we know that industrial civilization has choked the mystery out of the world, and a post-apocalyptic landscape is the most plausible version of a world in which we’d be able to confront something unknown again. Books, movies and video games that depict post-apocalyptic worlds are often successful (financially if not artistically), and it’s easy to see why: there’s an undeniable appeal to imaginatively putting yourself in such a bleak, dangerous world and moving around in it. More particularly, people are fascinated by society’s hypothetical destruction, and what human life would look like afterwards. People are fascinated by their own destruction, and people with diabetes are no exception.
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