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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
The Silence of the Liberals: A good time for getting in touch with who you really are.
Where do Good Germans come from? They come from the same cowardice that reputedly-decent liberals are expressing right now with a vast, self-incriminating silence.ModernDope (old account) / Amazing Photos / CC BY-NC-SA I noted this in passing on Facebook (with … Continue reading
Screw off, fake priests! How to get governmentally-organized-crime out of your marriage.
To surrender all recourse upon default is the best assurance you can give that you intend never to default – and it is one hell of an incentive not to!Photo by: Jean L.The Cautious are always cowards: Theirs is a … Continue reading
How do I know that human behavior is not causally determined? Because all organisms are exclusively internally-motivated.
If consciousness is an illusion, why would you have a luggage tag? This came up in email, but I want to take on a piece of it here, because it’s interesting to me, and because it illuminates a discussion I … Continue reading
Facts are facts: You cannot rip off the band-aid until you admit that you have wounded your self.
Building on the idea of the number line of morality discussed in Chapter 7 of Man Alive, this video from September of 2012 takes up the idea of ripping off the band-aid — getting pain out of the way quickly … Continue reading
Empathy for the machine that is your body: If you can tell someone how you surf – you can’t surf.
When you surf, you want to know where the board’s going to be. When you drive, you want to know how the car is going to respond to the road. And when you engage with another person, animal or machine, … Continue reading
My third quarter: Two new books, ten hours of new video and you.
The Church of Splendor: Beatitude with a beat.I’ve been organizing this year’s work into quarters, just to keep track of how I’m doing. I don’t know if this makes any difference, but keeping the inventory is impressive – to me … Continue reading
Why do people get trapped in awful relationships? Because they think they’re fixing what’s wrong.
Find the love for life your dog never lives a day without at Amazon.com:Shyly’s delight: Work, play and love like a Labrador.This came up in email, but I’m sharing it here in the hope that it might help people learn … Continue reading
The name of the game: “You are not chained by any hand other than your own.”
Me: “They cannot jail everyone. They depend on you to jail yourself.” More: “An affectionate relationship will get better over time, and an aggressive relationship will always get worse.” Much more, from The Church of Splendor last Sunday: A discussion … Continue reading
Dancing bears everywhere! Mocking academic monkeyshit in intellectual self-defense.
The modern university is dominated by Marxism. This is not a controversial statement, but if you insist on disputing it, I’d appreciate it you would wait until all the college Fresh Meats come home for Thanksgiving. Once they have had … Continue reading
Do you want to live – or do you just want to blame someone else for your self-annihilation?
In the end, the truth will out. It always does.One of the reasons I do most of my talking in sites I control is that I get thrown out of every other joint eventually. My take is that I get … Continue reading
Don’t hide the decline! If the social sciences are bunk, can the hard sciences be trusted?
The face of “science.” Where you find tax dollars, you find rent-seeking liars. More fool you that you claim to be surprised by this palpably obvious fact.Photo by: jonathan martinezIf people lie and cheat for casual and largely pointless reasons … Continue reading
A change is gonna come: When you act upon your life as it actually is, everything gets better.
Here’s a fun article from LewRockwell.com: The Disappearance of the Fat Libertarian. The gist: Libertarians (broadly defined) have been strongly influenced by “paleo” web sites like Richard Nikoley’s FreeTheAnimal.com, with the result that folks who once lived on a diet … Continue reading
When life feels like a dance to you – that’s when you’re living Shyly’s delight.
We call them ‘dumb animals.’ They’re so dumb they live happy lives and die contented.We’re Homo sapiens, the wise ones – so wise we live miserably and make the people around us happiest with our deaths.Photo by: J PThis is … Continue reading
A calculus of morality on a first-grade number line: No one is good – or evil – by accident.
From Chapter 7 of Man Alive, “A calculus of morality on a first-grade number line.” Of those two introspective experiences – shame and Squalor versus pride and Splendor – which would you say is the better expression of the idea … Continue reading