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“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
I am fomenting a philosophical revolution that will change everything for everyone in due course. How? By finally fully redeeming Western Civilization.
You’re going to help.
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Disintermediation means cutting out the middle-man, and, by teaching you a new way of thinking about human nature and about your own unique self, the free book Man Alive! puts you in charge of your own philosophical affairs.
The book's objectives are precise and concise: To take the claim of justice away from the state, the mantle of intellectual authority away from the academy and the experience of reverence away from the church. It puts all of those things back where they belong — in your mind. There is no middle-man on truth.
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- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
- BloodhoundBlog – a national real estate weblog I started and contribute to. Much of the content there will be real estate related, but everything I write is focused on the self, and this is best represented in the longer essays.
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Practical anarchism is egoism in action: “Be who you are. Do what you want. Have what you love.”
My answer, always: Live for your own sake, in pursuit of your own values, in behalf of your own loved ones – starting with yourself.Photo by: Kalyan ChakravarthyPeople who are fans of talk-show host Stefan Molyneux and who are not … Continue reading
My only points of disagreement with Ayn Rand, libertarianism and scholarship in general: Everyone has been wrong about everything, going back forever.
My epistemology professor – a playful peripatetic.I have met a lot of big-O and biggish-O Objectivists over the years – people who were present in the salons at the Hotel Martinique, others who were actual invited guests to the show … Continue reading
Set humanity free? No need. The enemies of liberty are graciously volunteering to exit the future.
I have the map to a much better future for humanity – but here is the best news of all: We’re headed that way already.Photo by: Ben FrancisI participated in a Facebook debate yesterday, something I almost never do. (Rule … Continue reading
What’s the good word? How about a benediction on the good only fathers can cultivate?
From last September, some very good words for fathers for Easter Sunday. –GSS Where do self-responsible children come from? Self-responsible fathers. Welcome to my church.Photo by: ErinWhat’s the good word? The one that gets the world won. I’m an easy … Continue reading
How do you look out for your own in the People’s Banana Republic of Amerikistan? Proficient rebellion.
We’re all in this together? Think again.Photo by: Sodanie CheaRule #7 of The Church of Splendor is: Look out for your own. Another way of saying the same thing is: What’s in it for me? Yet another: How will this … Continue reading
Government is crime. Everything it does makes life worse, not better. How is that a good bargain?
A Facebook friend asked some questions about my political philosophy, and I am echoing my answers here for posterity. If you have questions for me, I encourage you to ask them. I know that I can be tough to take, … Continue reading
Who can free you from the chains that bind you in slavery? The same person who forged those chains.
From Chapter 11 of Man Alive, Indomitable you. If you lived here, you’d have an excuse for your self-pity.Photo by: Tim (Timothy) PearceIf you have been paying attention to the slow-motion train wreck going on among the allegedly capitalist nation-states … Continue reading
An Autonomism FAQ: If self-control – anarchy – is all the “government” there is – what then?
“But, but, but! We can’t live in anarchy!! We already do. There is no alternative to human self-control. There is no way for you to control my behavior from the outside, and no way for me to control yours. We … Continue reading
Asking the hard questions: Wishful thoughtlessness, #FeminismPatrified and what to do about the poor.
Killing a man slowly is no kindness.Photo by: SPT Photographe (seanthibert.com)Killing a man slowly is no kindness. After mocking the left for their creepy embrace of the man formerly known as relatively dignified, I take up the black bug of … Continue reading
Ayn Rand and me: Distinguishing self-adoration from big-O Objectivism – over brunch.
Pulling this forward to amend it with this video, a clip from a Church of Splendor service imagining a Sunday brunch with Ayn Rand that she might not storm out of: Praising the empathy of her fiction while taking her … Continue reading
Meet the Third Thing.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; … Continue reading