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Nikolai Vavilov died of starvation in the gulag on this day in 1943. At the same time, his comrades at the botany institute in nazi besieged Leningrad were starving to death while taking shifts to protect the seeds and tubers he had collected. Nine died.
When we examine the history of survival, the efforts of various hedge fund people and other paper shufflers to protect themselves from "the event" are laughably naive.
your guards and your support personnel and your various underlings will murder you to survive, guarateed, because your lives never had purpose, and indeed you can't even conceive of a purposeful life
iron purpose beats even survival instinct, this is demonstrated over and over and yet the lesson goes on unheeded
