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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.
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
Print | Kindle
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
Q: Who knows you better than you know yourself? A: Everyone who is successfully milking you.
Look around the poker table. Don’t look for the sucker. You wouldn’t be looking if you didn’t already know it’s you. Instead, look for the guy who can’t seem to stop pissing you off. ¡Abre los ojos! YOU are HIS sucker.Photo by: … Continue reading
DISC-my-way MY way: Rushing you to a backwards-and-forwards understanding of human motivation.
Someone said, “If you can’t fit your idea on the back of a business card, you don’t have a clear idea.” I think doing the whole job in verse makes the point even better.Now there’s doggerel worthy of Kipling. That’s … Continue reading
Hubris For One: Because self-mockery is a task that should not be delegated.
I ate Karl Marx. Turned out to be a cupcake-sized task, so I mopped up Mohammed for the frosting. I’ve figured out how to kill Yelp and every Yelp-like cyst on the internet. And, also, I know how to disintermediate Disney.What … Continue reading
Love and reliability: Marriage takes to the sky.
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.I may make church later this morning, just so I can laugh at myself. I’m getting ready to deal with the idea of reliability – which is what Driven/Sociable civilization … Continue reading
Wanna see #ThriversEd in action, now, today, wherever you are?
What will you find at the skatepark?All the motivation absent from school.Photo by: Noah_DiamondGo to the skatepark. You’ll see a thriving Institute of Persistent Excellence composed entirely of peaceful, purposeful, playful volunteers. Dutch Uncles and their adhocracies? Simultaneously abundant and … Continue reading
Why do children rebel so comprehensively against schooling? Why do rape victims fight back?
If you read my magnum opus yesterday, you know a lot more about ThriversEd than you did before. Here’s something I figured out only later: Schooling : Education :: Rape : Love-making The way we’ve done schooling so far – … Continue reading
#ThriversEd: Snagging the wrench out of the works with self-improvement for the not-yet self-aware.
“You’re following all this, right?”Photo by: Daniel X. O’NeilTrue confession: I can be fun to be around – for a while. But eventually I start to wear on almost everyone, because I can be juggling so many eggs, torches, bowling … Continue reading
What’s the Stone Soup game? In three quick minutes – what have you got?
You bring what you’ve got. I’ll bring what I’ve got. Together we’ll have a feast of the mind.Photo by: Paul JosephStone Soup is not just one of the earliest of the ThriversEd games, as with the Dutch Uncle game, it encapsulates … Continue reading
PEAK the Yelp-killer: How a few magic beans could change your evaluation of everything.
“Where’s my added-value?”Let’s see… I threw off a social network, but who who needs another one of those? Mine has recruitment, participation and retention incentives, where none of the others do – and no need for advertising and all the … Continue reading
Why did those fussy old schoolmarms make such a fetish of useless subjects like penmanship?
Q: If a kid has a fidget toy, what doesn’t he have?A: Enough to do with his hands.Photo by: fidgetcircleDon’t confuse me. I don’t love top-down, outside-in education any way it’s done. But still: There are better and worse ways … Continue reading
“For I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Thomas Jefferson said that. “Imagine that you are one of those functionaries of government in whom there has grown, it seems inescapable, the propensity to command, in however oblique a fashion and for whatever supposedly good purpose, the liberty and … Continue reading
The independence you crave is freedom from Cautious tyranny – and only the Driven can deliver it.
Here’s a fun tweet from me (well, fun for me, anyway): How East Eats West: Jesus the Sc wed the Dc Greeks to the Ci Jews, yielding the Ds Anglosphere—now being devoured by Ci #Marxism and #Islam. — Greg Swann … Continue reading
How #ThriversEd cultivates humanity’s greatest wealth: Good character.
Wealth is created by people of good character, not by their pedigrees – or their posturing.Photo by: Sam valadiThe other day, I talked about The Dutch Uncle Game as a kid’s game, but it’s much more than that. I wrote the … Continue reading
Free to a good home: A fun, easy plug-’n’-play best-seller kid-lit franchise.
What your kids need most from their bedtime story is what you bring to it even without the story, but you can bring the right kind of stories to your children even if no one has written them down in … Continue reading
Wealth is character: Seeing The Dutch Uncle Game as a thriving Multi-Level-Leadership network.
“Hey kid! Know any sociopaths?”Photo by: Richard ElzeyI mentioned yesterday that The Dutch Uncle Game contains within it the means to build a kick-ass multi-level-marketing network. MLM has a terrible reputation in the U.S., so after consultation, I’ve resolved to … Continue reading