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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!
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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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- 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.
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To save the world, the West doesn’t need to export democracy, it needs to rehabilitate the family.
You set an example in everything you do. Every work of the mind is poetry first, the expression of the ideal. If you hope to live among people who live up to your standards, cultivate them – by cultivating the … Continue reading
The 5 stages of a stand-up guy’s life: Invisible, expendable, untouchable, forgettable, disposable.
Like a fish needs a bicycle? Think again.Photo by: The U.S. National ArchivesIt’s Veterans Day as I write this, a holiday so important to the Ruling Class that they didn’t turn it into a three-day weekend. Fear you nothing, though: … Continue reading
Attn: Koch Brothers: “Cultivate humans, and they’ll cultivate everything else you’re looking for.”
We find the world we’re looking for. Here’s what I see: Look at all them books…I know precisely two things about the Koch Brothers: 1. They spend a lot of money trying to sway voters toward human liberty. 2. Marxists … Continue reading
Go, go, Shylygirl! Understanding my #kidlit Indiegogo campaign as a marketing appeal.
“Leadership is more than just going first.” –Shyly D. Lightful, The scientific art of getting lost, for dogs. http://igg.me/at/ShylyLostI have a brand new Indiegogo campaign as of this morning, a crowdfunding appeal for my forthcoming #kidlit bedtime story book, The … Continue reading
Making the art that will change the culture with a shaggy-dog self-help book – written by a shaggy dog.
“Why a self-help book for dogs? Because leadership is more than just going first.” –Shyly D. LightfulI’m a happy man. Everything I’ve been grailing for in narrative art for the past two years is coming together for me now: Launching … Continue reading
Beta testers needed for a comic #kidlit bedtime book – about a family of talking dogs.
“Leadership is more than just eating first?”I have a kid’s book coming – maybe a few kid’s books. The comic premise: Self-help by dogs for dogs. The book I’m working on now will be called “The scientific art of getting … Continue reading
We can #StopGunViolence by teaching young men appropriate authority. Ask Anthony Johnson to help.
Me, me, me at #T21C.Another month, another mass shooting. Are guns the problem? You bet. Guns in the hands of under-fathered, over-medicated, involuntarily-celibate, universally-rejected young men. Take away the guns (in your dreams) and these boys will kill with knives … Continue reading
When do I give up on my marriage? And how do I know if I should?
When should you give up on your marriage?How about never?Photo by: Clyde RobinsonThere is no theology in an atheist church, but still I would love to give my catechisms a big, fancy theological name, something like Iconoclasticism. Consider: I run … Continue reading
When Prince Charming is just a sad clown with a schtick, every Swoop Girl is Cinderella-for-a-day.
Popular artists and their puerile prey – could that be you? – love to fantasize about a world with “no-strings-attached,” but that world is not this one. In the real world of real consequences, the mistake you made last night … 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
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
What’s the best tactic in the Ruling Class-led war on humanity? Convincing you not to have a family.
To the extent that a woman is doing with her life what any man can do, then, by all means, all hail the winsome Miss Spinster. But to the extent that she is not doing what only she as a … Continue reading
The implications of deliberate thoughtlessness? There can be no justice for know-nothings.
I’ve been pondering deliberate thoughtlessness — and so far my brain has not imploded. I came up with that turn of phrase — deliberate thoughtlessness — as a way of describing the amazing ineptitude of the ruling class. As you … Continue reading
Screw off, fake priests! How to get governmentally-organized-crime out of your marriage.
To surrender all recourse upon default is the best assurance you can give that you intend never to default – and it is one hell of an incentive not to!Photo by: Jean L.The Cautious are always cowards: Theirs is a … Continue reading
The price of mindlessness? “If you are gulled by bad ideas, it is because you want to be.”
From Chapter 10 of Man Alive, “A mindful catalog of mindlessness.’ Back in high school, you knew a young lady I call the Swoop Girl. Someone said that high school is taxpayer-subsidized dating, and that observation was probably hard to … Continue reading