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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.
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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
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- 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.
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The DISC of Ayn Rand’s anti-family philosophy and how it promotes human misery.
You wanted to know what explains the Incandescent/Cautious female harridans and the Cautious/Incandescent male involuntary-celibates of the libertarian movement: It is this formula for human misery concocted by Ayn Rand.This started as a comment. Then it grew. If you have … Continue reading
I see dead people: Which of Ayn Rand’s heroes would have been aborted post-Planned Parenthood?
Who is John Galt? Ayn Rand’s moral ideal, in the world she prayed for and achieved, was sold as spare parts, with the rest of him left to stain discarded rags.I wrote this yesterday, and I admit to my chagrin … Continue reading
Aborting Liberty’s Future: You can’t have your kids and eat them, too.
The future belongs to the people who show up for it.Photo by: ann_jutatipAttn: @YaronBrook, #AynRand Inst: Who will change the culture? The people who don’t kill their children. This is me writing almost seven months ago: The longer the Ayn … Continue reading
Using emotions as tools of cognition: Pain is nature’s way of telling you you’re getting something wrong.
’Tards gonna ’tard. Don’t let them do it to you – and don’t do it with them!Photo by: JD HancockI’ve spent six months, now, pummeling The Ayn Rand Institute. This is precisely as fair as Donald Trump picking on poor, … Continue reading
Who killed Ayn Rand’s anti-looter reputation? I suspect Pope Sneakoff, in the hospital, with a pen.
Who destroyed Ayn Rand’s reputation for intellectual integrity? Cui bono? Who had the most to gain?A few weeks ago, writing about taxation, I said: I have further thoughts on Ayn Rand’s late-life Social Security parasitism if anyone cares to revisit … Continue reading
Telling @LOR3LE1 I love her with a one-two-three punch to #abortion – all as #MyKindOfBenedy.
I am proud to know you, @LOR3LE1. @LOR3LE1 follows me. I’ve never felt such visibility. To capture her could set me free from self-contained obscurity. So please don’t let’s drive her away. I am ebullient, not addle-pated. I am rich … Continue reading
Revisiting The Dutch Uncle Game in preparation for a new challenge: Batman’s Bluff.
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
My top 5 posts illuminating the Ayn Rand Institute’s intellectual paralysis over abortion.
“Why should we bother to reply to Kautski? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautski is a … Continue reading
Taking on Ayn Rand and Objectivism on abortion: A moral atrocity cannot somehow be a political sacrament.
From September of 2012, this is me at Richard Nikoley’s FreeTheAnimal.com talking about abortion in the context of nominally egoistic moral philosophies. Quoting a comment from Richard: Greg Swann has the best and only valid argument counter abortion: you have … Continue reading
Brief reflections on The 21Convention: “It’s a man’s world, except when it isn’t.”
I’m back from Austin. The 21Convention was an extraordinary experience, and I may write more about it sometime soon. There’s this much for now: I hadn’t realized how much I was putting my head into the lion’s mouth until well … Continue reading
See Man Alive! live in Austin, August 17th – 19th, at the 21 Convention.
I will be doing an hour-long presentation on my book Man Alive! at the The 21 Convention in Austin. The convention runs from August 17th – 19th, and I will be speaking first-thing in the morning on Saturday, August 18th. … Continue reading