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Save the world from home
— in your spare time!
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, 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
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.
New at SelfAdoration.com- Silent cinema in three quick glances: Emily Brownbangs at the conception of guile.
- Love at first sight, twenty-five years later: Someone to thrive with.
- My only points of disagreement with Ayn Rand, libertarianism and scholarship in general: Everyone has been wrong about everything, going back forever.
- Ayn Rand and me – why my homework is late…
- An infinity of souls.
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Author Archives: Greg Swann
From Man Alive! – “A calculus of morality on a first-grade number line.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 7. A calculus of morality on a first-grade number line. You live an easy life, and that has made it easy for you to be thoughtless and … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “Evaluating values.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 6. Evaluating values. We like to think of human history as a clash of great men, their hair flowing in the breeze, their muscles rippling, their eyes … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “The greatest love of all.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 5. The greatest love of all. What’s the purpose of life? Scruffy, bearded teenagers of all ages have been asking that question for thousands of years, and … Continue reading
Who do you have to kill to find a good villain around here?
I worked on the ideas that became Man Alive! for thirty-three years, since I was nineteen years old. And the problem I started with was more practical than philosophical: I was a young wannabe novelist, and I could not for … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “The greatest invention in the history of humanity.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 4. The greatest invention in the history of humanity. In the last chapter, I raised the idea of your being stranded on a desert island. That’s a … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “Speaking in tongues.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 3. Speaking in tongues. One of the things that protects humanity from all of the philosophers and academics who insist that we are nothing special is the … Continue reading
Are you tempted to bet against humankind? What’s in it for you?
Just as we were finishing the final edits on Man Alive!, my friend Jim Klein insisted that we needed a separate domain for the book. This had not been a part of my plain — I was prepared to launch … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “The nature of your nature.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 2. The nature of your nature. The general form of the specious appeal – this seems to have certain traits in common with that, therefore this is … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “You’re in this all alone.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 1. You’re in this all alone. Each individual human being is his own first and best philosopher, like it or don’t, for this simple reason: You are … Continue reading
Sneezers wanted: Pre-release announcement for my new book, “Man alive! A survival manual for the human mind.”
One of my favorite jokes about the art of advertising copywriting is a matchbook cover reading, “Save the world from home in your spare time!” I don’t know if anyone still advertises on matchbook covers. I don’t even know if … Continue reading