Joseph Archer

1 week ago | americaoutloud.news | Joseph Archer

The opportunities available to society are as high as its current condition is low. Like the quote ‘It was the best of times, It was the worst of times’ suggests, a golden age arises out of a time of despair. In a real sense, Utopia is just a few smart decisions down the street from abject misery. Look at Botswana. Just as one bad decision can derail a perfect life, one smart decision can produce the opposite result.

2 weeks ago | americaoutloud.news | Joseph Archer

Now that we are spending close to a trillion dollars a year to ‘defend’ democracy, perhaps we can have a conversation on how we could reduce this just a bit. Is this just the cost of doing business, or are the people we are relying on to provide protection taking advantage of us? I don’t want to be indelicate, but I think I can make the case that the cost of our military might just qualify as a war crime. In this article, I will describe a hardware-based concept to minimize costs.

2 weeks ago | americaoutloud.news | Joseph Archer

In 1913, Congress gave the treasury to private banks. Arguably, our ‘representatives’ chose to ignore the most likely result. It is inconceivable that people who would not abuse such an opportunity are in the minority and quite possibly do not exist. Seriously, if you had the keys to the money-printing machine, what would you do with it?

3 weeks ago | americaoutloud.news | Joseph Archer

 Cultural Wars, Political, The Machine, Top Stories For years, I have tried to understand the left. It is and has been difficult in that I have been stubborn in my insistence that the correct interpretation must include a conclusion that most on the left are well-intentioned people, regardless of their tacit approval of the use of force, deceit, and violence to achieve their ends. This had led to my latest hypothesis that leftists are leftists because they are emotionally and intellectually...

3 weeks ago | americaoutloud.news | Joseph Archer

The conventional model of human habitation is like a tumor on the Earth. The drawbacks of building around a city center are hard to overstate. Consider the logic of designing human habitation around transit and utility corridors, much like the human body. Every cell in the body is nourished and cleansed by virtue of the blood circulation infrastructure.