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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 Price
My 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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I am delighted to speak anywhere, anywhen, and I am interested in any opportunity you can come up with for me to evangelize egoism. I am rich in ideas that, so far, few of us seem to prize. If you value the idea of self-adoration in the way I do, let's talk about how we can increase our numbers.
More by Greg Swann
FREE Willie
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.
Kindle
Traindancing
Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
Kindle
Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
Kindle
Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
Print | Kindle
Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
Print | Kindle
Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
Print | Kindle
Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
Print | Kindle
Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
Print | Kindle
Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
Print | Kindle
Christmas at the speed of life...
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
Print | Kindle
The Unfallen
A love story
Print | KindleMy other writing isn't collected in one place, but here's a shopping list for finding the best of it:
- 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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- An infinity of souls.
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Category Archives: Splendor!
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
My delightful dog Shyly teaches me how to sell plush toys – from beyond the grave.
The real Shyly, virtually invisible, as always, with the real Odysseus. That’s one of the real Ophelia’s toys on the floor behind them. And Desdemona? She fades…My dog Shyly, writing in The scientific art of getting lost, for dogs: I … 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
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
What’s the worst that could happen, Dad, if you go ahead and let your family fall apart?
The father of the under-fathered West, Karl Marx.Photo by: gravitat-OFFOne way of comprehending Marxism: The global reification of patricide. Karl Marx’ father was a primo provider, but – “Daddy! Daddy wasn’t there!” – he was scornful and demanding, simultaneously dismissive … Continue reading
EF or FF? Man versus nematode – and ‘science’ versus humanity.
“Hey, Baby. You wanna come up and see my etchings?”The male brain is ‘programmed’ to prefer sex over food? No. ‘Science’ is at war with humanity? Oh, yes. Exposing the Dancing Bear Fallacy with a classic dirty joke:
Marxist ants, enslaved protozoa and the final triumph of feminism – the spree killer.
Good news! Dinoflagellates have the right to live without being enslaved and slaughtered – and so does your child.I wrote the complete algorithm* of moral philosophy over the weekend. That’s the good news. I have lots of bad news, including … Continue reading
In its ugly #abortion evasion, what else are @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute neglecting?
“What, me worry?”After almost three months of exposure of the gruesome nature of the intrauterine infanticide championed by novelist Ayn Rand, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute has to-date had this to say: “La, la, la, la, la!” That’s … Continue reading
Greg Swann speaks: An extended interview with me in Orlando from August of 2013.
Orlando, where you can almost always find a footing.In August of 2013, Anthony Johnson of The 21 Convention brought me to Orlando to do a video interview. I stayed for a month, for my own purposes, but the flights were … 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
What’s the BEST thing Steve Jobs made? That would be you. So think different. Do better. And thrive.
[Today is the anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs. This is me writing in 2011, when he annouced his retirement from Apple. –GSS] Steve Jobs announced his resignation today as CEO of Apple, Inc. From that one little tidbit … Continue reading
Attn. Yaron Brook: Your shameful silence on abortion spotlights the Ayn Rand Institute’s intellectual bankruptcy.
Objectivism has always been at war with the obvious, uncontested facts of human gestation. That war is now all the way lost. You’re not clipping your toenails, you are murdering your own child. Who knew?Photo by: Morten LiebachAs I write … Continue reading
How do you “work at” your marriage? How about by making love continuously?
Wanna make love more often? It’s easy. Marry for life and then make love in everything you do.Photo by: Brian RichardsonTheory is a fine thing, but it don’t get the eggs fertilized. The everyday praxis of “working at” your marriage … Continue reading