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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.
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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
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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.
Category Archives: Splendor!
Until you know what the buyer is buying, you don’t know what you’re selling – or how.
Did he just say matron-fracker? In church?Thanks to Anthony ‘Dream’ Johnson of The 21 Convention, The Church of Splendor is streaming with his much more robust Youtube powers. This week: Loki the Trickster illuminates the emotional factors in play in … Continue reading
A comic romp of love, sex and philosophy: My Kindle novel The Unfallen is FREE right now.
The Unfallen, a novel of love and indomitability, available at Amazon.com.My novel The Unfallen is now available as an Amazon Kindle eBook. Here is the way I blurbed the book when I wrote it: The Unfallen is a very sexy … Continue reading
Cultivating Splendor: An atheist egoist church, philosophy without a net – and you.
I’m staring at you – and you know it.The Church of Splendor is growing. With half-a-year’s worth of services in the vault, Anthony ‘Dream’ Johnson of The 21 Convention is taking on the live streaming with his much more robust … Continue reading
How does a man express his love? With teasing, torment, pushing, crowding and obstruction – that’s how.
The love of families is expressed with pushing, crowding and contrived annoyances. You call that love? I sure do. From Sunday’s Church of Splendor service, Loki’s the trickster’s humor as an expression of storgic love.
We all owe our freedom to fatherhood, but you owe your everything to your parents.
If you’re like me, you never thank your parents enough for all the gifts they gave you when you were growing up, but your humanity itself is the greatest treasure they conferred upon you.Photo by: ErinI have a lot on … Continue reading
What do you call an anti-family libertarian like Stefan Molyneux? A Marxist.
“If you want to perform the greatest service for political liberty, all you have to do is turf all of your unsatisfying relationships. Parents, siblings, spouse, it doesn’t matter.” –Stefan MolyneuxI do not wish to dwell on matters Molyneuvian, but … Continue reading
Fifty shades of bleak: Looking for love everywhere it isn’t.
His name? Ineradicable Regret.Photo by: David ShankboneHere are two complementary facts about the ontology of adult genetic Homo sapiens: Men are seed-sprayers. Women are egg-layers. Men and women are functionally equivalent, in the sense that, away from our sex differences, … Continue reading
Contra Stefan Molyneux on the family: I pity defoo on nihil.
Yesterday’s Church of Splendor homily: We start with a discussion of the essential role of self-responsible fatherhood in the creation of Western Civilization. Then we relate that back to the anti-family praxis of ‘defoo’-ing – disassociating from your family-of-origin – … Continue reading
Parenting is coercion, so how can a consistent libertarian get the diapers changed?
Given a rational choice, which he cannot have and will not have for many years, no baby would choose to writhe in his own waste. But this does not make changing his diaper any less an act of physical force … Continue reading
The Return of the Hoplite: In the enduring family comedy, fathers cultivate the future.
Even at its scrupulous best, a delegated self-defense is an illusion, as any father who has killed a burglar can tell you – and as the father who was not there to defend his family can never bear to tell … Continue reading
If the border immigration crisis were a thriller, who would be the ultra-villain?
Pawns, meet the pawns. I have three stories in my head today. One is an inverse romantic comedy, call it a reconciliation-com. All I have so far are the establishing shots, him moving his too-much-stuff into a too-small apartment, her … Continue reading
The Fatherhood Agenda: Let’s have a ‘national conversation’ about the elephant in the nursery.
Let’s have a ‘national conversation’ about the fact of American life that matters most, hurts worst and offers the best promise of redemption going forward: Fatherlessness.By: Yvette T.The thing that people love most, second only to a root canal, is … Continue reading
Feminism is fatherlessness, and its best ally is the half-committed dad.
This is a chapter extracted from Father’s Day. If you don’t want for your children to be delivered to the tender mercies of Family Court, you should be working through this book chapter by chapter. 10. The Long Goodbye Tell … Continue reading
Celebrating my second quarter: Redeeming Western Civilization by redeeming fatherhood.
Hauling marriage back from the abyss – with a refreshing informality and a cacophonous guitar.I’m having a great year. Someday that will matter to more than just a few people, but that doesn’t make any difference now. What matters is … Continue reading
The Church of Splendor: Loving Cathleen – The 57 second book trailer
“There is no better incentive to staying on the path to Splendor than to marry someone you have to live up to.”I’m playing hooky from The Church of Splendor this Sunday so I can commune anniversarily with my wife. This … Continue reading