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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!
SelfAdoration.com gets links — not many, but some.
We are getting some inbound links, despite my kvetching. I’d like to see more, but for that I have to wait — which is the human behavior I am worst at. Psalm was cited in the Objectivist Round-Up, a blog … Continue reading
An Army of Cartmans: Libertarian and Conservative pundits “triumph” by becoming what they despise.
Ahem: 1. Saul Alinsky was evil, as are Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, etc. There is no benefit to a self-loving mind in emulating their vile, rhetorically invalid tactics. Breitbart was wrong: Tu quoque is not okay. 2. No matter how … Continue reading
New to the image library: “Dear Cops: Please don’t kill my dogs.”
Suitable for framing — just like you. Click here to get one for your front door.
If you don’t follow @TeriLussier, you’re missing out on a #tlot.
The woman has style. I am so proud to know her. Meanwhile, my challenge to the libertarians is still unanswered. Apparently, the crucial responsibility of making dog-eating jokes is more important. A question for you: By whom are you led … Continue reading
Movie of the week: I am extraordinarily ordinary, I believe you can master anything you wish, I detest “collective thinking” and I know that the existential — what really happened — is what really matters in life.
A not-so-brief movie about philosophy and guitars. I address the four issues raised in the heading above, among them a post I wrote for Richard Nikoley’s FreeTheAnimal.com about mastering difficult tasks.
Man Alive! — The Podcast: Video as audio for your aural edification.
This is pure housekeeping. The two videos I’ve done so far are now also available in audio form. The first video, which you can find here, is echoed below. Here is the link to the iTunes page for the podcast.
Paradise is just a sneeze away…
This project was built to be viral — to be spread by propagation by internet users. Viral memes are spread by “sneezing,” by people sharing the meme with each other. My objective is to get as many people as possible … Continue reading
Housekeeping: Image library and Kindle Reader and iBooks versions of Man Alive!
Nathan Stocker was gracious enough — and talented enough — to do what I could not do: He built Kindle Reader and iBooks versions of Man Alive! To use them, you will have to “Open in…” your eReader of choice. … Continue reading
From Man Alive! “Evaluating values.”
Chapter 6. Evaluating values. The name philosophers give to any ethical doctrine promoting self-love or self-interest is egoism. I use that term myself to describe the system of ethics I am elaborating here, but I’m not crazy about it. First, … Continue reading
Psalm
Art is demanding, and that’s good. But art is petulant and importunate and presumptuous to a fault. Art is that damned nuisance of a snoopy neighbor who keeps knocking, knocking, knocking on your cellar door. Art goes straight for the … Continue reading
From Man Alive! “The greatest invention in the history of humanity.”
Chapter 4. The greatest invention in the history of humanity. That chapter heading is really just a tease. What’s the most important invention ever devised by the mind of man? Fathertongue, of course. All other inventions flow from it. Without … Continue reading
From Man Alive! “Speaking in tongues.”
Chapter 3. Speaking in tongues. I told you I use the words “human being” as a term of art. Here is why: Because there is a valid and valuable distinction to be made between a genetic Homo sapiens (the surviving … Continue reading
Are you tempted to bet against humankind? What’s in it for you?
This came to me by email: I read your book last night. I got the impression that you believe you can liberate the bulk of the population by helping them to free their minds. I think you are doing electoral … Continue reading
From Man Alive! “The nature of your nature.”
Chapter 2. The nature of your nature. Everything I have to say about anything starts with carrying the claim back to the object. The essence of philosophical error, deliberate or not, is creative solipsism: “The nature of the thing under … Continue reading
Save the world from home — in your spare time!
That headline is my favorite advertising joke, a send-up of all those hokey old matchbook covers. I don’t know if anyone still advertises on matchbook covers. I don’t even know if anyone still makes matchbooks. Presumably, by now, smokers can … Continue reading