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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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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.
Category Archives: Splendor!
“Working at” your marriage: What does it mean – and why bother?
Every relationship requires maintenance, most especially the most important relationship in your life.Photo by: Vladimir PustovitDavid Brodie asked me a great question about last week’s homily, and that provides the springboard for the Church of Splendor this week: “I’m wondering … 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
Getting Ass Backwards: How the hell can you screw up sex?
It should not be possible, but humanity seems to be screwing up its own wet dream…Photo by: Kevin DooleyLove is in the air? Lust is in the news, anyway. I’m connecting dots from these three news stories: • Former prep … Continue reading
Practical anarchism is egoism in action: “Be who you are. Do what you want. Have what you love.”
My answer, always: Live for your own sake, in pursuit of your own values, in behalf of your own loved ones – starting with yourself.Photo by: Kalyan ChakravarthyPeople who are fans of talk-show host Stefan Molyneux and who are not … Continue reading
The Victims of the Sanction: Yaron Brook and the Ayn Rand Institute must respond on abortion.
Attn: Yaron Brook: Cum taces, clamas. When you say nothing, you say everything.To whom must the Ayn Rand Institute respond? The people who murdered their own children and destroyed their still-born families on its bad advice. Here are the egregious … Continue reading
A tear for Wendell.
Wendell’s Mountain. The essay is old enough to vote. The mountain is old enough to laugh.Photo by: Andy BlackledgeJanuary 9, 1994 I know I’m a bad friend, and that’s why I don’t let myself have friends. It was in college … Continue reading
What is Splendor? For me it’s exuberance and indomitability.
What do you get, if you can achieve that kind of freedom? Splendor – or at least a clear path to attaining Splendor. Your mileage may vary, but for me the experience of Splendor is exuberance, an enthralling, almost-continuous, searingly … Continue reading
Apprehending ethics from the inside out: Quarrying your own best self.
You’re in this all alone.Photo by: Andy RobertsThe ass-backwardness of every moral philosophy but mine is easy to explain: Every error emerges from the anti-factual claim that human behavior can be controlled from the outside with the right external imperatives. … Continue reading
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
Question: When is it appropriate to say, “So it’s okay with you if I rape and kill your mom, right?”
Space: It’s what you’re taking up.Time: It’s what you’re wasting.Responsibility: It’s what you’re evading.Photo by: John Fowler Answer: Anytime some dumbass pretend-philosopher maunders about unreality. PS: From Man Alive: The universe is internally self-consistent. This is what we mean … Continue reading
Business Insider unintentionally reveals why most people feel inadequate at work.
You don’t say…What, according to Business Insider, are the the 13 things mentally-strong people don’t do? It turns out that they don’t show up for work as Incandescent, Sociable or Cautious people. Read the list. Mentally-strong people are Driven people. … Continue reading
Three story angles the Ayn Rand Institute can use to continue to evade the abortion scandals.
“Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me!”James Taggart’s first words in Atlas Shrugged are, “Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me! Don’t bother me!” That’s a nice intro, because that’s how an Incandescent/Cautious temperament responds to a crisis. The … 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
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