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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.
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Doing the job the Ayn Rand Institute is afraid to do: Abortion is incompatible with egoism.
How will you feel about yourself going forward if, as the only possible protector of the life of a helpless innocent, you choose to exterminate that life? Egoists ask those kinds of questions. Juveniles do not.Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy is … Continue reading
Is the Ayn Rand Institute’s indefensible stand on abortion part of a clandestine intelligence op?
Spies everywhere!Photo by: JD HancockWriter David McGowan is the author of an enchanting conspiracy theory: Was the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s a sophisticated intelligence operation devised to defuse the anti-Vietnam-War movement? As with … Continue reading
Why am I infanticide-shaming the Ayn Rand Institute? Because abortionism kills humanity itself.
Good grief…Intrauterine infanticide – abortion – is morally repugnant – and you don’t need for me to tell you that, do you? The ‘procedure’ itself is ugly, as are its secondary consequences, but being instrumentally involved in abortion makes us … Continue reading
Why won’t the thick-witted cowards at the Ayn Rand Institute rise up to defend Planned Parenthood?
Dead babies… can’t take new ideas to the next level – even if that were permitted.Official-Objectivists never talk to me. They come around by the committee-load, but all they do is lurk. I see them by what they read – … 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
What do you call an anti-family libertarian like Stefan Molyneux? A Marxist.
“If you want to perform the greatest service for political liberty, all you have to do is turf all of your unsatisfying relationships. Parents, siblings, spouse, it doesn’t matter.” –Stefan MolyneuxI do not wish to dwell on matters Molyneuvian, but … Continue reading
If you want or your ailing Grandma dead, kill her yourself.
If you want Terri Schiavo – or your ailing Grandma – dead, then kill her yourself. But call things by their right names. The act is murder. The actor is a murderer. And the victim is not ever a volunteer.h.koppdelaney … Continue reading
Sympathy for the underfathered: How the right art will cultivate better lives for our children.
I have good news: The world outside your mind is a a glorious paradise of infinite possibilities. The right kind of art will show you – and your children, and everyone’s children – how to see it that way from … Continue reading
Love husbandry: Marriage dies by the snarl – but it thrives in the light of a loving smile.
A good marriage makes everyone better: Thriving seeds ever-more-abundant thriving. You breed by breeding, but you breed your ideas with your good example, too.Photo by: Hamza ButtPicking up from yesterday, let’s put a finer point on what we’ve learned so … Continue reading
Two bodies, one love, one ideal, one destiny: Marriage is cooperation, not competition. Who knew?
“I can’t get no… satisfaction…”Yikes! That’s the picture I made the other day of the hypothetical marriage of Inferox to Facinatox, the least Ds, most Ci couple I could imagine. If Gaius and Gaia, the counter-vailingly hypothetically perfect married couple, … Continue reading
Jeffrey Tucker asks, “Why is this happening?” Liberty languishes because libertarians don’t reproduce.
Pictured at the right is a tweet I saw yesterday from Jeffrey Tucker, a big-shoe libertarian. Why, he wonders, is human liberty being Trumped by an obvious thug? He names six reasons, none of which are wrong, but he omits … Continue reading
The worst result of Yaron Brook’s abortion evasion? Victims of Objectivism still eat their young.
Why do the victims of Objectivism eat their young? Yaron Brook told them to.I was all over Yaron Brook of The Ayn Rand Institute in 2015 for his cowardly, shameful, ignominious evasion of the Planned Parenthood videos. I went easier … Continue reading
An Autonomism FAQ: If self-control – anarchy – is all the “government” there is – what then?
“But, but, but! We can’t live in anarchy!! We already do. There is no alternative to human self-control. There is no way for you to control my behavior from the outside, and no way for me to control yours. We … Continue reading
Redeeming Western civilization by curing the incuriosity of the East.
Only Hellenism brings that which is without within, in her sciences, and that which is within without, in her arts.Hani Amir / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND This is me writing in May of 2003, in the build up to the … Continue reading
#MyKindOfBenedy: How can something as silly as a movie make your life ever-better over time?
I am replacing the terms tragedy and comedy – with words that mean something.Photo by: Tim GreenJan Schlösser, bless his bits, asks this about last week’s video: Greg, would you mind giving some examples of narrative art that you would … Continue reading