Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball - Capitalism is Dead, But We Still Dance With the Corpse http://www.sott.net/articles/show/211851-Waltzing-at-the-Doomsday-Ball-Capitalism-is-Dead-But-We-Still-Dance-With-the-Corpse

As an Anglo European white guy from a very long line of white guys, I want to thank all the brown, black, yellow and red people for a marvelous three-century joy ride. During the past 300 years of the industrial age, as Europeans, and later as Americans, we have managed to consume infinitely more than we ever produced, thanks to colonialism, crooked deals with despotic potentates and good old gunboats and grapeshot.