Author Archives: Greg Swann

Attn: Yaron Brook: Cum taces, clamas. When you say nothing, you say everything.To whom must the Ayn Rand Institute respond? The people who murdered their own children and destroyed their still-born families on its bad advice. Here are the egregious … Continue reading →

Wendell’s Mountain. The essay is old enough to vote. The mountain is old enough to laugh.Photo by: Andy BlackledgeJanuary 9, 1994 I know I’m a bad friend, and that’s why I don’t let myself have friends. It was in college … Continue reading →

What do you get, if you can achieve that kind of freedom? Splendor – or at least a clear path to attaining Splendor. Your mileage may vary, but for me the experience of Splendor is exuberance, an enthralling, almost-continuous, searingly … Continue reading →

You’re in this all alone.Photo by: Andy RobertsThe ass-backwardness of every moral philosophy but mine is easy to explain: Every error emerges from the anti-factual claim that human behavior can be controlled from the outside with the right external imperatives. … Continue reading →

How will you feel about yourself going forward if, as the only possible protector of the life of a helpless innocent, you choose to exterminate that life? Egoists ask those kinds of questions. Juveniles do not.Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy is … Continue reading →

Space: It’s what you’re taking up.Time: It’s what you’re wasting.Responsibility: It’s what you’re evading.Photo by: John Fowler Answer: Anytime some dumbass pretend-philosopher maunders about unreality.   PS: From Man Alive: The universe is internally self-consistent. This is what we mean … Continue reading →

You don’t say…What, according to Business Insider, are the the 13 things mentally-strong people don’t do? It turns out that they don’t show up for work as Incandescent, Sociable or Cautious people. Read the list. Mentally-strong people are Driven people. … Continue reading →

“Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me!”James Taggart’s first words in Atlas Shrugged are, “Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me!” That’s a nice intro, because that’s how an Incandescent/Cautious temperament responds to a crisis. The … Continue reading →

“I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.”Image by: JD HancockThis has been a good week for me. Vide: The more I pick at the Ayn Rand Institute, the more I find to pick at.   I summarized my empathy-based … Continue reading →

Yikes!This week I find myself serially coming back to The Dutch Uncle Game, which I talked about last fall. The game itself is fascinating to me, and of course I’ve been playing it in my own way for all of … Continue reading →

Portrait of the author as a Driven/Incandescent.I talk about DISC all the time, but if you don’t already know what I’m talking about, I may be leaving you lost. I can link to Wikipedia’s DISC Assessment page, but that’s truly … Continue reading →

Spies everywhere!Photo by: JD HancockWriter David McGowan is the author of an enchanting conspiracy theory: Was the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s a sophisticated intelligence operation devised to defuse the anti-Vietnam-War movement? As with … Continue reading →

Paper tiger flexes his tonsils, soils himself, sullies Western Civilization. Piers Morgan: ‘My highest moral virtue is my ferocious animal savagery.’ With emphasis: Rhapsodizing violence is evil. It is even more self-destructive if, like Morgan, you know your homicidal rage … Continue reading →

Blood makes noise. I’ve known Don Watkins net.wise for 15 years or so, and I met him in real life last Fall in Tampa. I comped him a copy of Father’s Day – because the last thing the world needs … Continue reading →