“The United States is but the latest in a long succession of great Western empires…[whose successors] will admire America for the ways in which she was great, and criticize her for the ways in which she was awful, just as Americans do the civilizations which came before her. And tourists from that future nation will one day visit the ruins of the great American cities…” – “Successor“
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Independence Day 2023
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