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Save the world from home
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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.
More by Greg Swann
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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.
SplendorQuest done socially
Author Archives: Greg Swann
Stop cursing the darkness by turning on your mind!
I’m in the midst of writing a book in defense of the human mind. I keep calling it an essay or a treatise, but by now I realize, to my chagrin, that it’s going to turn out to be a … Continue reading
Q: If a man goes dancing with a Dancing Bear, what, would you suppose, is his first name?
A: Claude. It’s a Fathertongue joke. You can run it by any young kids you may know to see if they have graduated to childhood. A child would have to understand Fathertongue to get the joke — to swap the … Continue reading
Egoism in action: The face of Splendor…
My friend Jim Klein fingered this video this morning: Forget the context. It doesn’t matter. What I want for you to see is that young man’s face just as he finishes playing. This is the face of Splendor. This is … Continue reading
The purpose of civilization…
[I’m pulling this over from BloodhoundBlog from 2007. The back-story is the tragic death of a young father. –GSS] I make my living as a hard-headed, practical man, but I live in a very abstract world. Because of the Anglin … Continue reading
From The Unfallen: “When there’s nothing you can do, do nothing.”
This is from my book, The Unfallen. Click on the link to download the whole book. That night when Gwen was undressing, she read the card Winnie had given her. It was an M.I.T. business card with Winnie’s home address … Continue reading
I write as a writer: There has never been satire as concise and perfect as South Park by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
To say anything is to block their light: Reverse CowgirlGet More: SOUTHPARKClyde Donovan,Randy Marsh,more… Simply brilliant. Pitch-perfect at every tone. What of our art will survive us? Almost nothing. But South Park will. As another guy said, their stories are … Continue reading
Forget multiple orgasms. Any woman should be able to come instantaneously and continuously — if she learns how.
Prepending further notice: I have not been back to this project for a few months, and I don’t know when I’ll get back to it. Everyone’s money has been refunded, and I’ll probably do something very different when I get … Continue reading
To most completely love yourself, you must behave lovably all the time.
That headline is the shortest possible statement of an ontologically-consonant moral philosophy. More: Behave always, constantly, in such a way that you will have earned and deserved your own self-adoration. Act always to complete your self and never to dismantle … Continue reading
A short history of creatively powered spaceflight
A short history of creatively powered spaceflight from the Niven Institute of Applied Plausibility New students to the discipline of plausibility are often shocked to discover that it was only three centuries ago that humankind toiled — for years — … Continue reading
The counter-countermelody…
This again is from The Unfallen. This is the descant to my earlier countermelody, both referring back to Loving Cathleen, below. There is a good deal more in the book on the philosophy of love and its contraries — plus … Continue reading