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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
Rational egoism for Christmas: Pursuing your own values is your only job.
Spring will come, but in the mean time we will deck the halls with the colors of Spring to remind ourselves that things can always be better.JD Hancock via Foter.com / CC BY It’s the season for giving, so Marxists … Continue reading
The egoism of taxes? You choose not to fight to defend your money, so pursue the values that matter to you more.
Now that ought to make a difference!I have been sitting on some questions from Luke Williams about taxation and property rights for the past two weeks. I wanted for the news cycle to tamp down, but I also wanted to … Continue reading
Translating multiculturalism: Tolerant means negligent. Diligent means exterminated. We can do better than that.
Too many chiefs? Not for long…Photo by: Zechariah JudyOne line from Shyly’s delight: A Driven who is not in charge of something important to him will be disruptive – and eventually destructive. To be rational is to be rational about … Continue reading
Habituating egoism: It is a horrible injustice to diminish your self in reaction to other people’s bad behavior.
The only person who can make you miserable is you.Illustration by: GollyGforce – Living My Worst NightmareI’ve been talking, this week, about mananging conflict egoistically by reflecting on this essay: How do you live happily among people at war with … Continue reading
Yes, emotions are tools of cognition – and emotional repression is a time-tested tool of tyranny.
Why would anyone ever want to suppress that?Photo by: Loren KernsAdam Talbot, may fortune smile upon him, asks a question that’s not about San Bernardino or Donald Trump: I am wondering about dealing with emotional reactions. What do you think … Continue reading
Color me cynical, but why haven’t we seen the surveillance video from the San Bernardino Islamassacre?
Video doesn’t lie. Why aren’t we seeing it?Photo by: Frédéric BISSONI love the idea of The West, but I’ve never not hated The Ruling Class that seems determined to run it into the ground. I want to be proud of … 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
Our war with #Islam is for civilization itself – and I believe you are in league with the Greeks.
There are Greeks and there are barbarians, with nothing in the middle. If you insist that you are not a barbarian, then I will insist that you are in league with the Greeks.I had a time of it, this week … Continue reading
Cain’s world: Spreading Western Civilization with Persephone’s second coming…
The Greeks made us civilized, but Winter made us civil.Photo by: Zach DischnerMarch 9, 2004 I sing the praises of Western Civilization, and it might seem as if I am speaking solely of ancient civilizations. I am in league with … Continue reading
Praising Cain: Change the world forever by learning to love your life the way you actually live it.
How are you going to keep them down in the dirt after they’ve seen life among the free?Imagine this: You are the High Priest of a nomadic tribe following a herd of foraging sheep. When the tribe needs food, a … Continue reading
Redeeming Western civilization by curing the incuriosity of the East.
Only Hellenism brings that which is without within, in her sciences, and that which is within without, in her arts.Hani Amir / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND This is me writing in May of 2003, in the build up to the … Continue reading
Saved by Grace from Islamic Workplace Terrorism: Even in the midst of carnage, hope springs eternal.
She may be Grace, but she’s hope, too.Yesterday, while the whole world was watching San Bernardino get shot to shit, I was showing off that baby picture to everyone I met. Her name is Elizabeth Grace Trbovich, but I’ve thought … Continue reading
My take on Zen is totally Zen: You are going to be who you are – and I like it that way.
Buddha is in league with the Greeks – as are we all.Photo by: Okko Pyykkö Q: If you came upon the Buddha in the guise of a hot dog vendor, what should you say? A: Make me one with everything. … Continue reading