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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!
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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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.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
Print | Kindle
Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
More Father. More Man.
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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!
Commentary: “Science has become an international bully.”
Anti-humanism as the ruling paradigm of science: Subjectivity is your private experience of the world: your sensations; your mental life and inner landscape; your experiences of sweet and bitter, blue and gold, soft and hard; your beliefs, plans, pains, hopes, … Continue reading
“No sane person builds a widget factory in the middle of a battlefield.”
Kevin Williamson at NR: There is some debate on the right about whether President Obama is a fundamentally well-intentioned incompetent or a more Machiavellian figure so power-hungry that he is willing to kneecap key sectors of the U.S. economy in … Continue reading
Sultan Knish: “The Left is Too Smart to Fail”
A long read, but worth it: Finally, manufactured intelligence is self-involved. It mistakes feeling for thinking. It deals not with how things are or even how we would like them to be, but how we feel about the way things … Continue reading
Bitch-slapped by the invisible hand: “Those who don’t make money never become philanthropists.”
Demi-billionaire Robert W. Wilson to billionaire Bill Gates: When I talk to young people who seem destined for great success, I tell them to forget about charities and giving. Concentrate on your family and getting rich—which I found very hard … Continue reading
Want to get Washington’s attention? Produce no wealth to be looted – once a month on #JohnGaltDay
These clowns think YOU work for THEM. You need to tell them otherwise. “This is the mind on strike.” —Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Rand was hugely right about this, as is ever more obvious with every new failure of alternative … Continue reading
Obamacare makes it plain that statism cannot work. What a great time to rethink your premises.
Liberals and social conservatives: As you gaze in awe and horror at the inevitable collapse of every grand plan to control human behavior from the outside, this would seem to be a wonderful time to question and replace your base … Continue reading
When I start a church, I’m going to call it The Second Church of I-Don’t-Go-To-Your-Church.
Thomas Hawk / Foter.com / CC BY-NC How do you know when a time is right for your idea? How about when someone else comes up with something similar?: Atheist ‘mega-churches’ take root across USA, world. For the past three … Continue reading
Memo to @SenTedCruz: Grow the middle class by evangelizing #egoism.
For freedom-seeking people to achieve their ends, the middle class — the everyday expressions of joy and excellence — must grow.
I want to speak at your event – music, humor, inspiration guaranteed.
The good, the true and the beautiful – and I’ll leave ’em dancing in the aisles, I guarantee it.I want to sell joy to your audience. I can speak at any length on just about any topic, delivering music, uplifting … Continue reading
The hunt for Greg’s October: Houston calls me, but I’m open to other ideas.
My friend James Pruitt (@jamesdeantx) keeps trying to put me in front of Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz), which is the kind of quixotic ambition I deeply admire. Plus which, I’m really interested in fracking, but I don’t want to go … Continue reading
Man Alive! – The Trailer.
A very short book trailer for the free book Man Alive! If you’re tired of watching your life circle the drain as demagogues rob you of every human value, this book is for you. How do you change the world? … Continue reading
Want to stop losing and start winning in the war for your own freedom? Do something different!
A short film about why your own hypocrisy about the philosophical values you actually live by empowers the enemies of human liberty — to the peril of everything you love.
Greg Swann – The Trailer
A short movie about why you should be hiring me to sell everyday human joy to your audience. Connect the dots: 1. We need to fix the culture. 2. The way to fix it is with comedy. The trailer above … Continue reading
For Jeff Price any anyone else who wants to know: Here is how I got ‘Cherry Bomb’ – my $90 StratoClone.
Hello, World! I’m your WILD girl!When all you want to say is Hello, Dad! Hello, Mom! I give you Ch-Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb! If you got ninety bucks, you got rock ’n’ roll.
Rock Me Mama Egoism In Action: The link from art to human values and back.
Everything is all one thing, so this is a video essay about art about music about morality about song-writing about marriage about redemption – simple stuff. This is egoism in action, me being me. This video connects directly to the … Continue reading