The Affectionate Display
“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
Who is @WhoIsAlexJacob and how does putting Alex Trebek on tilt on @Jeopardy advance the cause of #liberty?
Revenge of the Nerd: “Hate me harder so I can win even more.”Life is a benedy, y’all, and the only newspaper-news worth attending to is good news. The best news in the week just past? Poker pro and currency trader … Continue reading
Get rich fighting crime! Save the girl – and make big money doing it – by correcting one simple error in your thinking.
You are a moth ramming a sheet of plate glass again and again, insisting by your behavior that the glass must somehow give way eventually.The pitch… That’s a sweet offer in the headline, don’t you think? It’s like Batman meets … Continue reading
The perfect date night for the man with a plan? Take your baby to the shootin’ range.
The Manly Display: Showing her a man worth trusting, yielding to, following – looking up to.Photo by: Wheeler CowperthwaiteThis week’s homily at The Church of Splendor is called Four Word Marriage Therapy: Doing Stuff Alone Together. In the video I … Continue reading
The Fifth Rule of The Church of Splendor: Never play the other man’s game.
Celebrating three years of Man Alive and the first year of The Church of Splendor with a recounting of the rules I live my intellectual life by. These are the five (so far) rules of The Church of Splendor: 1. … Continue reading
A celebration of reverence: “The love of Splendor is the life divine.”
Man Alive is three years old today, Easter Sunday 2015. Here I am rehabilitating the idea of reverence as an essential experience in the fully-human life. Why is there a Church of Splendor, an egoist, atheist church? Because we don’t … Continue reading
The greatest love of all? Your love for your self, of course.
So what should you do – to make the most and the best of your one, irreplaceable, finite, uniquely-human life? That’s easy: Love your self.Photo by: Dmitry KichenkoMan Alive will be three years old Easter Sunday. When I wrote the … Continue reading
The high cost of mindlessness.
Your world is in ruins, if it is, not because the universe is malevolent and not because somebody done you wrong. Your life is chaos – or you fear that it soon might be – because you have failed to … Continue reading
The integrity of art: The story of the cosmos, told by way of a pop chord progression.
By now, I hope you know that the proper rejoinder to a ludicrous proposition put forth by a government functionary wearing a lab coat is to say, at full voice, “Say WHAT?!?” Don’t be shy. You’re not being anti-intellectual – … Continue reading
Affectionate persuasion: How to sell like a ‘natural’ – with a carney’s empathy.
“Fifty years from now you two could still be together, surrounded by everything you love, all because you won this trophy of your affection for her today…” And that is closing like a carney, with an empathy for that particular … Continue reading
How @DreamExec Mike McNally helped me #DreamReal about orgasmic splendor.
The Affectionate DisplayMy 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 think I must have cabin fever. Whenever I get … Continue reading
How not to be misled by bad ‘science’…
‘Scientists’ who take government money say what the government wants said. This is news to you?Once you accept that a government ‘scientist’ will say what he is told to say – what then? This week at The Church of Splendor: … Continue reading
The how and why of a happy marriage and family in five minutes.
Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.Available at Amazon.comMichael McNally of The Dream Executive interviewed me recently for his podcast. The full episode will be available soon, but here’s a short clip that’s near and dear to my … Continue reading
#BlurredLines: WC Handy wants his song back.
The #BlurredLines judgment erases all creativity. American popular music is built on a very spare music theory. Virtually all of it can be reduced to just four very simple songs, with one – the 12 Bar Blues, originally attributed to … Continue reading
What should you do? Act upon the universe as it really is.
It’s Splendor or Squalor – and everybody’s gotta take a side…Photo by: Martin TalbotGot a taste for a mouthful of big words? My favorites are these: Ontologically-consonant teleology. What that means is conforming your moral philosophy to the true facts … Continue reading
Central banking and the auto-annihilation of the human race.
See the kiddies? Not for long.Photo by: BobZero Hedge, killingly conveying how all of human destiny is being laid to waste. Your prize for your complicity in the cultivation of the über-state is to explain to your grandchildren why they … Continue reading