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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.
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!
As we await the election results, a solemn reflection on the importance of voting.
Movie of the week: Embracing your inner anarchist — because there is no alternative.
Here’s my quick take on the presidential election, one day prior to the event: Mitt Romney is going to win an Electoral College landslide. My state-by-state prediction is shown below, but it’s not based on any sort of arcane science. … Continue reading
What’s better for a poor kid than a teacher and a tablet computer? A tablet without the teacher.
What do you do about 100 million would-be first-graders world-wide with no access to schools? Give ’em a tablet computer and let them learn on their own: With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One … Continue reading
More from Greg Swann at The 21 Convention: PUA, love, sex, orgasms and The Unfallen.
Anthony Johnson of The 21 Convention has posted another short clip from my presentation at The 21 Convention in Austin. This amounts to a short promotion of my novel, The Unfallen, but I manage to cover a wide range of … Continue reading
Greg Swann at The 21 Convention: The most important relationship in your life.
This is a three-minute clip from my presentation at The 21 Convention in Austin earlier this year: I’ve seen the full video, but I don’t know when that will be available for sale. You can buy an audio MP3 of … Continue reading
War! What is it good for? For rent-seeking, of course, as with all government programs.
Here’s an idea fit for tonight’s debate: The purposes of U.S. foreign policy are these, in ascending order of importance: 3. To defend the “interests” of American investors overseas who should be paying their own way or doing business here … Continue reading
Loving Cathleen…
My wife Cathleen and I have been on a love jag over the past few years, and I cannot begin to tell you how beneficial it’s been. A very simple idea: We added spending time alone together every day as … Continue reading
Movie of the week: Celebrating six months of Man Alive! by embracing the fact of human free will.
My book Man Alive! is six months old today. I celebrate this auspicious occasion by defending the undeniable ontological fact of human free will while dismantling two specious arguments on the subject. The first, put forth by an academic completely … Continue reading
When a Dancing Bear Fallacy shows up in the Sunday New York Times, it’s thugs all the way down.
I borrowed the public library’s copy of Sam Harris’ “book” denying free will by upholding it. I’ve tried to read it several times, but every time I pick it up, it falls open to Harris mocking the idea that the … Continue reading
It shouldn’t hurt to be married: A safe-word to the wise can help you get your marriage back on track.
Human social concourse, to the extent that it is not criminal, is mutually voluntary. This goes for marriage, too, and it doesn’t do to say that wheedling, whining, nagging, ridiculing or brow-beating are somehow not coercive in their intent. You … Continue reading
Where is the love in your marriage? Could it be that you chased it away?
Looking for a simple technique to turn back the clock on your marriage — maybe all the way back to your honeymoon? Would you like to get back to the love and respect the two of you knew every day … Continue reading
Who was a bigger loser than Obama in last night’s debate? McCain. Hillary. And you…
Public opinion is a fancy expression for the assiduous tabulation of mindlessness. Many Americans caught their first true glimpse of Barack Obama last night. People who attend to objective reality, rather than to “trusted” interpreters, have known for years that … Continue reading
“Being ahead of your time means never being invited back…”
That’s Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury. She’s been blogging for twelve years, and her writing is sharper than ever. Like Steyn and Mencken, she is interesting by default, content be damned. Little minds would call this mastery amid … Continue reading
An American girl in Iran? “All I could feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and attacking me.”
Bloomberg: An Iranian cleric said he was beaten by a woman in the northern province of Semnan after giving her a warning for being “badly covered,” the state-run Mehr news agency reported. Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman … Continue reading
Life after foreclosure: Cultivate indifference and press on regardless.
We just lost our house to foreclosure. Negotiations with the bank fell apart and we spent the last seven days bugging out. This was our third Notice of Trustee’s Sale. We had managed to redeem the note twice before, and … Continue reading