Too young to be that perceptive. Bah! Whippersnapper!

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

Not many writers would have the courage to use a tragic event like a 50,000-fatality earthquake to volubly address the problem of nonwhite laziness and why it sometimes makes natural disasters seem timely, but then again, David Brooks isn't just any writer.

Now ain't that true.