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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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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!
Flowerboxing: Ending the willfully negligent destruction of 98% of all human capital.
Two of my favorite people, my wife, Cathleen Collins, and my nephew, Sebastian Brannum.On the day my nephew, Sebastian, was born, we played a game together. Not much of a game, obviously: I would stick out my tongue, and then … Continue reading
Five years of Man Alive summarized in four words: Look where you’re going!
Moral philosophy in one algorithm.Church yesterday: Man Alive, my survival manual for the human mind, is five years old – and it is every day a better map to reality:
What’s wrong with @realDonaldTrump’s domestic agenda? It’s the #Marxism, stupid!
Donald Trump and the Seven Genocidal Evils of Marxism in 3.5 minutes flat:
Cultivation is expectation: Sane, middle-class adults cannot be converted, only cultivated.
Why are tactics aimed at converting adults futile? For the same reason that cultivating virtue in toddlers is so propitious: Attitude is everything. Me from Church last week:
If you want for there to be fewer abortions, show the world how wonderful children make it.
If you expect for kids to know that children are worth raising, first you will have to convince them that a child is something worth being.Photo by: Pedro KlienYesterday on Facebook, I linked to an article called 10 Ways You … Continue reading
Donald #Trump is Prince Hal, not Henry V. Here’s how you can spot the tells.
Cleaning up this mess? Now that would be women’s work.Once more unto the breach: This weekend’s events demonstrate that newly-anointed President Donald Trump is an Incandescent temperament, not a Driven personality. (Say whuuut? If you’re new, here’s the Cliff’s Notes … Continue reading
How I justify my long-standing policy of racial profiling.
If we should judge people by the content of their character, the black middle-class is getting screwed.dbking / Foter / CC BY One of the more repellent tropes of race relations, by me, is the deeply earnest white guy who … Continue reading
The Visibility Game: DISC (my way) and the game theory of everything.
Q: What can you tell about a person by the way he walks in a crowd?A: Everything else.Photo by: Aaron Tait Taking the time to really see the people around you will help you navigate your values – and theirs. … Continue reading
Graduated Sociopathy: Why there are no villains.
We give a little to get a lot.Photo by: Barry DavisI can show you where all monstrous behavior comes from – starting with your own. That would be church, Lurch. More on the non-existence of villains here. Much more from … Continue reading
What’s the egoist, atheist, anarchist take on abortion? Don’t fight it. Breed – and creed – it away.
Facts are facts. You cannot possibly havethe “freedom” to cancel the past.Photo by: ⅯeaganI’ve been bitching about abortion for 16 months now, and no one is more amazed by that fact that I am. It’s always been a deal for … Continue reading
So long, Leonard Cohen: An elegy from The Tower of Song.
“I’ll be singing to you sweetly from my window in the Tower of Song.”Photo by: marc cornelisJust in time to spotlight Bob Dylan’s disgrace, Leonard Cohen sings sweetly from beyond the grave: Art is an emergent phenomenon. It happens only … Continue reading
DISC is a universal shaling for the universe each one of us will perfect.
What am I running from? Every race I didn’t win.Photo by: Tsutomu TakasuNow that’s an opaque headline. I’m pretty sure the only person on earth who pays close attention to the things I say is me. That might be a … Continue reading
Vote today for the one person who can deliver real change in your life: You.
There is someone who always cares if you live or die. Cultivate that person’s mind.Bad news: No matter who wins today’s presidential election, everybody loses. Here’s how you can choose to win instead: Stop looking for the other guy to … Continue reading
Zero tolerance punished by extermination is the natural order for every Cautious tyranny.
Backseat drivers are not a problem – until they seize the steering wheel. But once they do, the loop amplification of persistent, failed compliance displays will induce the Cautious tyrant to fix people in the only way they can be … Continue reading
Yearning, working and winning: How to look out for your own.
Today Chopsticks, tomorrow Heart and Soul.Photo by: Camera Eye PhotographyChurch this week: The world may be going to hell in a hand-cart, but you don’t have to go there with it. There could not possibly be a more propitious time … Continue reading