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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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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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- 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.
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The Captain’s Commitment: Honoring our enduring obligations.
Nobody wants to think about abortion, so let’s think about something else instead: Now that wasn’t cruel! But Cameron Crowe’s 13-second morality play illuminates perfectly why this crisis of conscience over intrauterine infanticide matters so much: You create enduring obligations … Continue reading
DISClosing the game theory of everything with a DISCerning DISCrimination of the DISC personality types.
Portrait of the author as a Driven/Incandescent.I talk about DISC all the time, but if you don’t already know what I’m talking about, I may be leaving you lost. I can link to Wikipedia’s DISC Assessment page, but that’s truly … Continue reading
Libertarians: You’ve been wrong about abortion all along. It’s time to rip off the band-aid.
If you’re driving the I-5 and you need some Immodium, don’t stop in Irvine. They’re fresh out.If you have given your moral sanction to abortion until now, it’s time to rip off the band-aid. Here’s why: Abortion and self-adoration: Do … Continue reading
A conversation about race? About character? What we need is a conversation about civilization.
Welfare clients and other people who adopt their values are being judged just as Martin Luther King asked fifty years ago today: Not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.paulbence / Foter / CC … Continue reading
Go big or go Galt? The suburban parent’s guide to surfing the global economic collapse in style.
When will the world’s economy crash to dust? Homey don’t play that. But will it fail? Completely? Catastrophically? I believe in human ingenuity. I celebrate every wonderful thing the mind has done so far, and I have complete confidence that … Continue reading
Want a government that makes sense — and won’t self-destruct? Limit voting to net tax-payers.
Do you want to dine on Happy Meals three times a day, seven days a week? It’s easily done: Just let your kids vote on where you will be eating. Even though you’ll have to pay for everything, if you … 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
Our standing challenges stand unchallenged: If you won’t defend the sovereign self, your enemies win by default.
Jim Klein asks libertarians, conservatives and especially philosophers, Where is Man Alive! wrong? I have posted my own challenges, including this one, still unanswered. Meanwhile, in the world of newspaper news, Paul Ryan cannot run fast enough to get away … Continue reading