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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.
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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
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!
Redemption is egoism in action, so do the world a favor and catch your self doing something right.
You have the power to choose who you will be, but you do not have the power to escape who you have become.Hani Amir / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND I hope I don’t seem to be a scold. It suits … Continue reading
Go big or go Galt? The suburban parent’s guide to surfing the global economic collapse in style.
When will the world’s economy crash to dust? Homey don’t play that. But will it fail? Completely? Catastrophically? I believe in human ingenuity. I celebrate every wonderful thing the mind has done so far, and I have complete confidence that … Continue reading
Who cares about the tunnel? All I can see is the light.
I don’t do well in despair. Clarify that. I don’t mean that, when I find myself in despair, I fare especially badly. What is mean is, if despair were a classroom discipline for which one could be tested and graded, … Continue reading
Linking frees slaves: Newsy notes from around the nets.
I am buried in links, so I will now dig myself out. This is stuff I saw on the interwebs that I thought was worthy of note. Let’s start with some good news, a 99% price reduction in the cost … Continue reading
Celebrating everything humanity is, starting and ending with the indomitable human mind.
The Cul-De-Sac Hero asks if anyone can “provide a definition of a rational mind.” I can, and I’m always happy to take care of people who take care of me, so I think I owe him one. I responded to … Continue reading
Taking the measure of everything in the universe, interactively…
This is just cool…
When someone insists that human behavior “must” be determined by something (anything!) other than free will…
I was cited in a comment at A Voice For Men; I’m posting my response here as well as there. –GSS The Cul-De-Sac Hero is my hero. Thanks for the link. If readers here are interested, I undertake a … Continue reading
Ontologically-Consonant Teleology at the 21 Convention: Videos from Greg Swann’s presentation.
Anthony Johnson at The 21 Convention is publishing video segments of the talk I gave to the group on Ontologically-Consonant Teleology. I actually spoke twice to the 21 Convention, but my first address was lost. The second talk, encapsulated in … Continue reading
The Atlantic discovers Fathertongue, breathlessly concluding that dancing bears are NOT ‘just like us.’
News flash: It would seem that beat induction is a uniquely human, cognitive skill Zounds! Abstraction, which can only be done by human beings, can only be done by human beings! Who knew…? Of course, the wannabe ruling class can … Continue reading
Baby, they’re dumb in there: Disintermediate the elites for being evil — or simply for being stupid?
Just how devastatingly dull-witted are the members of that class of morons who hope to declare themselves our overlords? As we see every day, there is apparently no lower limit to how dumb you can be to get a job … Continue reading
You can’t “should” people into living your way, but you can help them learn to make happier choices.
From a comment on Facebook, I cherry-picked these three words > the natural order responding as follows: But because our behavior is governed by free will, this cannot exist for human beings. Rabbits cannot choose to be carnivores, tigers cannot … Continue reading
You will not rid the world of cannibals by eating them — but don’t be surprised if you find yourself on the menu.
Great Beyond / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA Imposing punitive taxes on your political enemies is a bad idea, one of many bad ideas floating around in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s re-election. Saul Alinsky was evil. Emulating his tactics is … Continue reading
Want a government that makes sense — and won’t self-destruct? Limit voting to net tax-payers.
Do you want to dine on Happy Meals three times a day, seven days a week? It’s easily done: Just let your kids vote on where you will be eating. Even though you’ll have to pay for everything, if you … Continue reading
Your gods have failed you again, but now more than ever, you know you’re in this all alone.
Well. Sadly, I overestimated the self-love of the American voter. In the battle of moocher versus moocher, the candidate of the faux-compassionate moochers beat the champion of the putatively-responsible moochers. Here’s the worst news: The moochers won. Again. But here’s … Continue reading