how could succession end? it simply couldn't go on. it will go on in people's minds, and in the exhausted world. it's capitalism. a succession of ends. it's the story we're captive in, world-making american style. hungry for more and yearning for a satisfying conclusion, in vain. it grows unsustainably, like greed, metastatic, doomed to fail, beyond nature til the natural collapse. this is our story, inescapably. we go on anticipating the end.