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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.
Save the world from home – in your spare time!
Disintermediate the ruling class: Read the free book that tells you how to do it.
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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More by Greg Swann
FREE Willie
A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
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Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
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Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
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Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
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Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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The Unfallen
A love story
Print | KindleMy other writing isn't collected in one place, but here's a shopping list for finding the best of it:
- Greg Swann writes – fiction and early essays.
- 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.
- SplendorQuest.com – a weblog devoted to celebrating the uniquely human life.
Author Archives: Greg Swann
Patriot’s Day II: The best a man can get: How to live and die as a happy man.
From March of 2014: Imagine yourself dying. Are you joyful or gloomy? Does your mind frolic in a meadow of happy memories, or are you failing to escape a dungeon of regrets. Are you surrounded by people who love you? … Continue reading
Patriot’s Day I: How #feminism destroyed love, marriage and the family.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.Photo by: msmorningtonFrom Frontpage, a long, horrifying essay documenting the origins, … Continue reading
How science “peer-reviewed” itself into a cargo cult of unreliability.
“Why in the world would smarmy hucksters gull the gullible just for a government paycheck? That could never happen!”Photo by: GoToVanThe extract shown below is from a much longer essay called Scientific Regress. It documents a number of the reasons … Continue reading
The purpose of life is life, and, accordingly, the ideal human being is the ideal mate.
We better the world by our every increase.Photo by: NattuWe best express our nature as human beings by best expressing our nature as rational, choosing organisms. Accordingly the ideal human being is the person who best realizes everything that it … Continue reading
Do you want to engineer a happy marriage? He drives, she rides shotgun.
Want a happy marriage? It’s easy. Whatever he is at work, at home the husband should manage his behavior as a Driven Sociable: A definite agenda with a focus on affection and enjoyment. And whatever she does outside the home, … Continue reading
The DISC of Ayn Rand’s anti-family philosophy and how it promotes human misery.
You wanted to know what explains the Incandescent/Cautious female harridans and the Cautious/Incandescent male involuntary-celibates of the libertarian movement: It is this formula for human misery concocted by Ayn Rand.This started as a comment. Then it grew. If you have … Continue reading
Martin Luther King on DISC: “Conscience asks the question, is it right?”
If you look for DISC discriminations, you’ll find them everywhere. Here is Martin Luther King showing you DISC as he saw it [with my annotations in brackets]: Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? [The Cautious temperament.] Expediency asks the … Continue reading
I see dead people: Which of Ayn Rand’s heroes would have been aborted post-Planned Parenthood?
Who is John Galt? Ayn Rand’s moral ideal, in the world she prayed for and achieved, was sold as spare parts, with the rest of him left to stain discarded rags.I wrote this yesterday, and I admit to my chagrin … Continue reading
Waiting for Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Inst. to come clean about the Planned Parenthood videos?
Busily butt-bussing billionaires: Yaron Brook is pimping a book about being a full-time professional pimp for full-time professional rent-seekers.You could have had a baby by now. Yes, the evader-in-chief of the Ayn Rand Institute has let nine precious months slip … Continue reading
“We are not doomed. We have just been very poor philosophers until now.”
From Man Alive, Chapter 1. You’re in this all alone. Your fundamental independence from all other people is the most important – and therefore the most deliberately obscured – issue in all of modern philosophy.Photo by: Kumar Jhuremalani What a … Continue reading
Celebrating four years of “Man Alive” and how it has improved lives – starting with mine.
In the end, the truth will out. It always does.Four years ago this week, I published Man Alive! – A Survival Manual for the Human Mind. It was an still is offered for free. You can snag it for yourself … Continue reading
What matters most in the universe? That would be you.
We’re coming up on the fourth anniversary of the publication of Man Alive, and that seems like a propitious time to take on some big ideas. So why don’t let’s go after the biggest idea of all, cosmology, the structure … Continue reading
From The Unfallen: Kiss me…
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com. kiss me your glory i kiss you my joy kiss me your giggling girlishness i kiss you my mannish boy kiss me your tickling i kiss you my laughter kiss … Continue reading
Making Tracks: Practical tips for driving very far very fast.
When the only thing that matters is putting miles behind you, this is how to get the job done.Photo by: Dennis YangToo many things I would rather didn’t talk about right now – Islamism, Trump, Easter, etc. – so this … 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