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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.
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.
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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
An illustrator’s guide to making your marriage last a lifetime.
A fully-committed man’s four hugging appendages deployed to their best advantage.As part of everything else I’m doing, I am hauling marriage back from the abyss. I am very much a champion of the family, but your marriage is what makes … Continue reading
How can a married man maintain his masculine frame? Like this: “Pipe down. You’re such a silly woman.”
What to do about your lying, cheating, abusive wife.Reflecting on a blog post in which a wife comes to realize that she has been abusing her husband with a Cautious tyranny, this week’s Church of Splendor homily takes on the … Continue reading
Jon Favreau’s “Chef” wins my vote as an exemplary benedy, a comedy that makes everyone better.
If you like the idea of good people working hard and winning, “Chef” will make a hearty meal for your soul.For the past few years I’ve been bitching at the would-be progenitors of a so-called ‘conservative culture,’ pointing that an … Continue reading
#JeSuisMarkSteyn for #EverybodyDrawMohammed day: “Do your worst. I will not kneel.”
“Do your worst. I will not kneel.”I don’t admire many people, more’s the pity. I know too much and see too much, and too much of what I see taxes me of the respect I might otherwise feel for a … Continue reading
The last refuge of the Clan Testudo: How to shield your family from poisonous pop culture.
The world may be going to hell in a hand-cart, but you and the people you love most don’t have to go along.Photo by: umer malikA little while ago I met a wonderful family who exemplify everything I’m looking for … Continue reading
Bright young man (or woman) on the make? Learn about mentorship from a master, Edward Druce.
Edward Druce, master of mentorship.I met Edward Druce last fall at The 21 Convention in Tampa, nominating him as my choice as the star of the event. The talk he gave, How to find a mentor in business, was not … Continue reading
A question for pro-gay-marriage libertarians: Isn’t it well past time to admit you were wrong?
Nothing says ‘libertarian’ quite like the faithful capitulation to Marxist tyranny.Photo by: Ross AngusI don’t pay much attention to libertarians. They start wrong and stay wrong, with politics rather than the underlying ethics of self-adoration, which is why they cough … Continue reading
Illuminating the Splendor of exuberant indomitability from the inside out.
Watch me surf my own elation.Photo by: Spirit-FireI’m in love with the ideas of exuberance and indomitability. In the videos I have made in the three years since Man Alive was published, I’ve made a stout effort to illuminate what … Continue reading
#MothersDay makes for a good brunch, but the #BaltimoreUprising shows us why #fatherhood matters much more.
The people who will matter tomorrow are the children who are being well-brought-up today, and well-brought-up means well-fathered.Photo by: Julian PoveyWhat’s the most important thing to talk about every year at Mother’s Day? Fatherlessness. Last year I spoke about the … Continue reading
My recipe for sane Muslims: Ashes of Koran fried in bacon fat drizzled over dog shit.
Reposted from September 24, 2012. Cum taces, clamas. Daniel Pipes (by way of Kathy Shaidle): In brief, any Westerner can buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into … Continue reading
The #KochBrothers are wisely recruiting new voters. I can show them how to eliminate #divorce.
Instead of repeatedly and resentfully failing to change things with the same old failed tactics, the much-reviled Koch Brothers are pursuing a true strategy with our new undocumented friends, who may soon be newly-anointed voters. In this week’s Church of … Continue reading
The implications of deliberate thoughtlessness? There can be no justice for know-nothings.
I’ve been pondering deliberate thoughtlessness — and so far my brain has not imploded. I came up with that turn of phrase — deliberate thoughtlessness — as a way of describing the amazing ineptitude of the ruling class. As you … Continue reading
A conversation about race? About character? What we need is a conversation about civilization.
Welfare clients and other people who adopt their values are being judged just as Martin Luther King asked fifty years ago today: Not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.paulbence / Foter / CC … Continue reading
How should the Supreme Court decide gay marriage? The real issue is the establishment clause.
The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of gay marriage today, pushing us just a little bit closer to civil war. A government of men and not of laws? Not hardly. We are by now a delphic kleptocracy, divining … Continue reading
#BruceJenner, #feminism, #MGTOW, Captain Capitalism and Heartiste are all aligned against normal human sexuality.
Outliers are not worth thinking about. What’s worth thinking about is what is normal.Human beings thrive in families. Yelling at that fact will not change it. Sunday’s homily, Defending normality by NOT celebrating diversity, manages to connect Bruce Jenner’s coming … Continue reading