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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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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!
Movie of the week: My commencement speech.
So. It’s like two months since I’ve made a movie, and I’ve been feeling overfull of things to say. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I had wanted to say to The 21 Convention, and I ended … Continue reading
Linking frees slaves: More notes from the nets.
By way of @bensima, who I met at The 21Convention, a lovely story about hi-tech hearing aids opening up the world of music to a severely deaf man: I’ve never understood it. My whole life I’ve seen hearing people make … Continue reading
He blinded them with science: Taking up the vocabulary of self-adoration at The 21Convention.
This is me speaking at The 21Convention earlier this month in Austin. The title of my talk — “Ontologically-Consonant Teleology” — was a joke, an early intimation that I intended to be dry, pedantic and boring. In reality, I gave … Continue reading
Fifty shades of pink sock: Facing up to and fixing the hook-up contradiction.
There’s a special language that men speak. I call it guy-talk. It goes something like this: “Two legs? Who the heck needs two legs? Two legs is a crutch. Two eyes?! Two eyes are for pussies!” I don’t know how … Continue reading
From The Unfallen: The purpose of civilization…
[I’m pulling this over from BloodhoundBlog from 2007. The back-story is the tragic death of a young father. I addressed some of these ideas in my second talk to The 21Convention, and I’m bringing this up now in anticipation of … Continue reading
Brief reflections on The 21Convention: “It’s a man’s world, except when it isn’t.”
I’m back from Austin. The 21Convention was an extraordinary experience, and I may write more about it sometime soon. There’s this much for now: I hadn’t realized how much I was putting my head into the lion’s mouth until well … Continue reading
Slave to love? Gwendolyn Jones is a sovereign woman.
More from The Unfallen, the politics of love: She buried her head in his chest and squeezed him hard about the middle. They stood that way for a long time and he could feel her hair tickling at his chin … Continue reading
Linking frees slaves: Newsy notes from the nets.
Fun, interesting links in no special order: Las Vegas is a wonder to behold, and it’s even more wonderful by helicopter. This panorama web site almost as cool as Vegas by helicopter. What happens when the State of California bans … Continue reading
Workin’ on the chain gang: You will “interconnect” — or else!
I love that image. My friend @TeriLussier fingered it. The original is at Street Art Utopia, a photo of a poster from Athens, Greece. I love it that it comes from that city, since all of Western civilization comes from … Continue reading
When the Second Amendment marries the First, gun control becomes a free-speech issue.
This is me commenting on an article at Forbes.com about the use of 3-D printers to manufacture firearms: This article is a nice illustration of why government as such is a futile undertaking. Human beings are indomitable: They cannot be … Continue reading
Meet the Third Thing.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; … Continue reading
See Man Alive! live in Austin, August 17th – 19th, at the 21 Convention.
I will be doing an hour-long presentation on my book Man Alive! at the The 21 Convention in Austin. The convention runs from August 17th – 19th, and I will be speaking first-thing in the morning on Saturday, August 18th. … Continue reading
Self-defense cannot be delegated. You can’t account for crazy, but you can prepare for it.
“A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith’s store.” Two people suffered knife wounds before an armed citizen pulled his firearm and put the … Continue reading
You built your business yourself? Tell it to the world, but get off the tax-payer’s tit, first.
It’s vampire versus vampire at the National Review. In response to President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” attack on individual initiative, a New Hampshire contractor insisted that he did so build his business. Except, as Think Progress reports, the guy … Continue reading
Batman is an illusion. Only you can defend your life and your loved ones.
A “lone gunman” shoots up a Colorado movie theater, and already the craven opportunists who know they cannot enslave an armed population are demanding still more gun control. The point is not to save you from events that cannot be … Continue reading