Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,When time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men’s lives. — Richard II’s lament from Act 5, Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s eponymous tragedy Given the (great unspoken) fact, the wealth of Western civilisation’s ruling class was created by, and is maintained … Continue reading No Proportion Kept: Within the Belly of the US’s Star-spangled Leviathan