guns

On ‘Babel,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ and violence.

Violence begets violence; to create a better world, we must act as though it could possibly exist.

January 6, 2023

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Book reviews, Religion

Abel's sacrifice, Abraham, An Arcane History, authority figure, Babel, Bible, binding of Isaac, blessing, Cain and Abel, Cain's sacrifice, capitalism, curse, disease resistance, disruption, diversity of languages, Edenic language, electrical shock, Everything Everywhere All at Once, fantasy, fear, film critique, film review, folktales, Genesis 22, Genesis 4, germs, great floods, gun violence, guns, Guns Germs and Steel, Ham, hierarchy, hubris, human migration, immunology, inequality, language, leap of faith, love, Michael Bazzett, Milgram Experiment, Milgram shock experiment, Milgram test, multiverse, myths, Noah, Noah's curse, obedience, Old Testament, origin of Bible stories, origin of inequality, origin of languages, parallel worlds, quantum mechanics, R. F. Kuang, Rebecca Kuang, religion, slavery, spoken word, Stanley Milgram, Steel, The Matrix, The Necessity of Violence, The Popul Vuh, Tower of Babel, Translation, why did humans build the Tower of Babel, Yahweh
On re-watching The Matrix, twenty years later.

The Matrix was, and is, an incredible film … but now, after all the school shootings, it’s hard for me to watch.

July 12, 2019

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, mass incarceration, Politics, Schooling

Alan Greenspan, American gun violence, angry young men, Christianity, Colombine, ethics, fear, Grant Morrison, gun control, gun violence, guns, high school, inequality, matrix, moral certainty, morality, Pareto optimal, Pareto optimality, Parkland, political ethics, political philosophy, school safety, school shootings, school stress, social contract, stress, student safety, students against gun violence, students for gun control, The Invisibles, U.S. politics
On hunting.

I saw many posts on the internet from people upset about hunting, specifically hunting lions. And eventually I watched the Jimmy Kimmel spot where he repeatedly maligns the Minnesota hunter for shooting that lion, and even appears to choke up near the end while plugging a wildlife research fund that you could donate money to. And,…

August 6, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts

aid to developing nations, an open invitation to stop by for dinner, animal cognition, animal intelligence, animal welfare, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Barbara Ehrenreich, barbecue, Blood Rites, Bloomingveg, CAFOs, captive-animal hunting, Cecil, Cecil the lion, cognitive dissonance, concentrated animal feeding operation, conservation, directed evolution of virulent bacteria, distribution of wealth, do humans need to eat meat, dosing farm animals with subtherapuetic levels of antibiotics is evil, Ducks Unlimited, eat your ethics, Ecology, environment, environmentalism, ethical exemptions, ethics, ethics for sale, factory farming, food, foolhardy farming practices, Goodwell Nzou, guns, habitat loss, habitat maintenance, hunting, hunting in state parks, hunting license, hypocracy, intensive animal farming, Jimmy Kimmel, local food movement, meat, medical discoveries, monetary aid, money, nature, Origins and History of the Passions of War, overpopulation, people are more important than lions, philosophical consequences of being born a heterotroph, pigs, pigs are smarter than lions, poaching, poverty, reparations, running terrified during deer season, subtherapuetic levels of antibiotics, terror, the coming health crisis, trophy hunting, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, wasting food, wetland preservation, zoo abuses

guns

On ‘Babel,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ and violence.

On re-watching The Matrix, twenty years later.

On hunting.