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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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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Loving Cathleen
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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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Yes, emotions are tools of cognition – and emotional repression is a time-tested tool of tyranny.
Why would anyone ever want to suppress that?Photo by: Loren KernsAdam Talbot, may fortune smile upon him, asks a question that’s not about San Bernardino or Donald Trump: I am wondering about dealing with emotional reactions. What do you think … Continue reading
Visibility, viability and the scientific art of getting lost, for dogs.
“Can you see the real me?”I’ve been playing visibility games for a solid year now. A visibility game, for me, is an intense empathy game where I probe you deeply enough to unearth the image of you that you wish … Continue reading
Anarchy for peacemakers: How to engineer the crazy out of Batman.
“I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.”Image by: JD HancockThis has been a good week for me. Vide: The more I pick at the Ayn Rand Institute, the more I find to pick at. I summarized my empathy-based … 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
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
Illuminating the Splendor of exuberant indomitability from the inside out.
Watch me surf my own elation.Photo by: Spirit-FireI’m in love with the ideas of exuberance and indomitability. In the videos I have made in the three years since Man Alive was published, I’ve made a stout effort to illuminate what … Continue reading
Ayn Rand and me: Distinguishing self-adoration from big-O Objectivism – over brunch.
Pulling this forward to amend it with this video, a clip from a Church of Splendor service imagining a Sunday brunch with Ayn Rand that she might not storm out of: Praising the empathy of her fiction while taking her … 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
Relationships as prison camps: “There’s no way out of here. When you come in, you’re in for good.”
This is an advance-look chapter from the book I’m working on now, “Shyly’s delight: Work, play and love like a Labrador.” It’s about illimitable joy, so I’ll tease you with some observations about pain. —GSS Find the love for … Continue reading
What did you do with your weekend? I spent mine finding the cures for Marxism and divorce.
Peer pressure is the direct result of Ss being punished for their failures (C dominance) rather than being rewarded for their successes (D dominance).Photo by: Tim LydyI am a geyser of ideas almost no one cares about – yet. I … Continue reading
My 7 magic laws of done: How to finish the things you start – quickly, completely and with style.
Genius is fueled by midnight oil – by hours and hours of focused, solitary effort.Photo by: Raffaele CamardellaYou know that book I keep begging you to read – Nine empathies? Here’s something funny about that book: I wrote it last … Continue reading
“I grow regardless.” This is the poem of my life – and of yours, too, I hope.
The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a turtle, and by an eternally-outraged human reptile.To read more about empathy, see me, feel me, touch me, heal me at Amazon.com. I know why. I can … Continue reading