Harbinger of Collapse: No Country for Old Men, Twenty Years Older Cliff Connolly reflects on the events of 2005-2025 for No Country for Old Men’s twentieth anniversary, focusing on its predictive power for the decline of the US empire.

the TRUE tale of the American West.
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“It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.”

✒️ #OwenWister, American novelist, "Father of the Western" (The Virginian), was #BOTD 14 July 1860. #Literature

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