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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!
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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.
Kindle
Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
Kindle
Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
Kindle
Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
Print | Kindle
Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
Print | Kindle
Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
Print | Kindle
Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
Print | Kindle
Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
Print | Kindle
Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
Print | Kindle
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
The secret to lifelong human happiness is simple: Stay married.
The actual, practical, day-to-day solution to the problem of lifelong human happiness: Stay married.Photo by: renee.I pay particular attention to the very young and the very old. I like children because they have not yet learned how to lie comprehensively. Abstract … Continue reading
For Luke Williams, here’s a complimentary grenade to lob into your Non-Agression Principle debate.
“Just remember this: If the rationale is almost impossible to read, it can’t be a cargo cult!”Photo by: barkThe Non-Agression Principle (NAP) is merely a sentiment, much alike to the Golden Rule. But it is (putatively) socially-restrictive, where “do-unto-others” is … Continue reading
A brief introduction to the assbackwardness of everything: Finding our way back to the garden of hope.
The Cautious cannot hope for the prosperity of the future, because they are too busy lamenting the losses of the past.Photo by: BrandonTo refuse to think is to refuse to live. Accordingly, if you’re not studying me, you are wasting … Continue reading
The guard must always change, Tiger, but it shouldn’t have changed so soon.
Lamenting what might have been.Photo by: Chris WellnerTiger, Tiger, tell the treeth: Were you as good as Jordan Speith? Tiger, Tiger, speak the trayth: Should you have hewed more to your faith? Tiger, Tiger, say the tryth: You lost it … Continue reading
Using emotions as tools of cognition: Pain is nature’s way of telling you you’re getting something wrong.
’Tards gonna ’tard. Don’t let them do it to you – and don’t do it with them!Photo by: JD HancockI’ve spent six months, now, pummeling The Ayn Rand Institute. This is precisely as fair as Donald Trump picking on poor, … Continue reading
The answer to the Islamorape of the Eurobabes? The very, very Israeli Krav Maga.
When is a woman safe? When she can kill with more than her good looks.Photo by: Denise MahoneyAn unmarried emancipated woman is a de facto man until she marries: She eradicates her own infestations. She cannot have delegated her self-defense … Continue reading
A raucous video podcast about the manly art of manliness: “It’s not growth if it’s not painful.”
Socrates, Steve Mayeda and me – having fun with staccato iconoclasm. Note and disclaimer: Speaker Greg Swann is no longer affiliated with The 21 Convention or 21 Studios in any ongoing capacity. Urf. I don’t hate it that I make … Continue reading
Do you want her to be the woman you married? Start by being the man she fell for in the first place.
If you can’t find the woman in your marriage – try looking for the man.Photo by: ThomasOne of the points I hit repeatedly in 2015, in public and in private, is the idea of masculine frame: Holding onto your identity … Continue reading
Who killed Ayn Rand’s anti-looter reputation? I suspect Pope Sneakoff, in the hospital, with a pen.
Who destroyed Ayn Rand’s reputation for intellectual integrity? Cui bono? Who had the most to gain?A few weeks ago, writing about taxation, I said: I have further thoughts on Ayn Rand’s late-life Social Security parasitism if anyone cares to revisit … Continue reading
To teach is to lead. How to lead bright kids to a brighter future.
Self-adoration is the mental state that results from habituated excellence – from consistently setting and eclipsing high standards.Shanghai Daddy via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND A question from David Brodie, a man I much admire: I was wondering how you would … Continue reading
Celebrating the Splendor of the New Year – with fart jokes. Now that’s church!
I thought I wrote “Jenny Kissed Me” for the 21st Century. Was it “Georgie Porgie” instead?It’s the two-year anniversary of The Church of Splendor. To celebrate, we’re reveling in poetry – including the evanescent effervescence of that silent sibilance that … Continue reading
Telling @LOR3LE1 I love her with a one-two-three punch to #abortion – all as #MyKindOfBenedy.
I am proud to know you, @LOR3LE1. @LOR3LE1 follows me. I’ve never felt such visibility. To capture her could set me free from self-contained obscurity. So please don’t let’s drive her away. I am ebullient, not addle-pated. I am rich … Continue reading
The high-D diet: How to lose weight without even trying.
If all you want is the frosting, why eat the rest?I’m a very high-D in the DISC system, a Driven. Compared with a highly-analytical Cautious personality, I can make three mistakes and land on the perfect answer while the high-C … Continue reading