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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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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.
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 5 stages of a stand-up guy’s life: Invisible, expendable, untouchable, forgettable, disposable.
Like a fish needs a bicycle? Think again.Photo by: The U.S. National ArchivesIt’s Veterans Day as I write this, a holiday so important to the Ruling Class that they didn’t turn it into a three-day weekend. Fear you nothing, though: … Continue reading
Why are middle-aged white guys killing themselves in record numbers? What do they have to live for?
Civilization is fathered into existence. If you want to destroy The West, destroy fatherhood. The rest will take care of itself – and the fathers will take care of themselves in due course, too.Photo by: Ann WuytsWhy does Sisyphus keep … Continue reading
The plot to the story that will change everything forever for everyone? Hard work pays off.
You don’t have to be Rocky to know what drove him.Photo by: Dr. Abdullah NaserJust when you think things around here can’t get any more exciting, we pivot without warning from narrative art to raw naked grammar. And not just … Continue reading
#MyKindOfBenedy: How can something as silly as a movie make your life ever-better over time?
I am replacing the terms tragedy and comedy – with words that mean something.Photo by: Tim GreenJan Schlösser, bless his bits, asks this about last week’s video: Greg, would you mind giving some examples of narrative art that you would … Continue reading
Wish you could watch or read my kind of benedy? At least you can follow #MyKindOfBenedy on Twitter.
There are good stories down that way.Photo by: Duncan HullMy kind of Twitter #hashtag: #MyKindOfBenedy. I want to talk about the kinds of stories that will do the job I want done – the job you should want done – … Continue reading
How would I program my three-hour prime-time TV Koch-block? Family style.
Politics is downstream from culture, sure. But how do you fix the culture? Stop telling people that they’re wrong and start showing them how to be right instead.What if the Koch Brothers (or some other rich benefactor) were to take … Continue reading
Attn: Koch Brothers: “Cultivate humans, and they’ll cultivate everything else you’re looking for.”
We find the world we’re looking for. Here’s what I see: Look at all them books…I know precisely two things about the Koch Brothers: 1. They spend a lot of money trying to sway voters toward human liberty. 2. Marxists … Continue reading
Go, go, Shylygirl! Understanding my #kidlit Indiegogo campaign as a marketing appeal.
“Leadership is more than just going first.” –Shyly D. Lightful, The scientific art of getting lost, for dogs. http://igg.me/at/ShylyLostI have a brand new Indiegogo campaign as of this morning, a crowdfunding appeal for my forthcoming #kidlit bedtime story book, The … Continue reading
Making the art that will change the culture with a shaggy-dog self-help book – written by a shaggy dog.
“Why a self-help book for dogs? Because leadership is more than just going first.” –Shyly D. LightfulI’m a happy man. Everything I’ve been grailing for in narrative art for the past two years is coming together for me now: Launching … Continue reading
My delightful dog Shyly teaches me how to sell plush toys – from beyond the grave.
The real Shyly, virtually invisible, as always, with the real Odysseus. That’s one of the real Ophelia’s toys on the floor behind them. And Desdemona? She fades…My dog Shyly, writing in The scientific art of getting lost, for dogs: I … Continue reading
Beta testers needed for a comic #kidlit bedtime book – about a family of talking dogs.
“Leadership is more than just eating first?”I have a kid’s book coming – maybe a few kid’s books. The comic premise: Self-help by dogs for dogs. The book I’m working on now will be called “The scientific art of getting … Continue reading
Visibility, viability and the scientific art of getting lost, for dogs.
“Can you see the real me?”I’ve been playing visibility games for a solid year now. A visibility game, for me, is an intense empathy game where I probe you deeply enough to unearth the image of you that you wish … Continue reading