That the ultimate commodity in which to invest is not gold or shotgun shells but people you can trust
That the combination of energy scarcity and climate upheaval spells the end of industrial agriculture, so you better start growing your own
That humans have evolved to work well in small groups while large ones waste energy on “social grooming activities” (a.k.a. politics)
That people who speak languages that are peppered with gratuitous instances of words like “my” and “your” (e.g., English) are a bit challenged when it comes to sharing or leaving nature unmolested
That historical nations abide but “acronym anachronisms” like USSR and USA turn out to be figments of the geopolitical imagination
That there is a subtle phonetic difference between the Russian words blat (unofficial access to all sorts of things through personal connections) and blyat’ (which Mike has discovered to be offensive to women).
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