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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.
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Author Archives: Greg Swann
Silence and distance and lies…
This is from my book The Unfallen. In essence, it is the countermelody to Loving Cathleen, below. I really like these two people, and I really like to let them talk. This is the furthest remove from high-action genre fiction, … Continue reading
Digging into a very graphic love poem to get a handle on active, imagic, metaphorically-rich writing
It’s late and the kids are in bed — do make sure the kids are in bed — and I feel like digging a little deeper into the idea of writing. This is a love poem I wrote ten years … Continue reading
Introspectroanalysis.
i took myself to the vet at the zoo to measure my animal heat for you he sounded my skull with a rap on my head and said I might need psychiatry instead the shrink had no patience for gross … Continue reading
Why the poet always gets the girl.
You come to me by twilight In a gown of gauzy white Your sacraments revealed concealed High priestess of the night You whisper vespers whisper prayers Whisper vows of faith and fear In still and silent grace you stand As … Continue reading
Kiss me…
kiss me your glory i kiss you my joy kiss me your giggling girlishness i kiss you my mannish boy kiss me your tickling i kiss you my laughter kiss me your before your before your before i kiss you … Continue reading
Loving Cathleen…
My wife Cathleen and I have been on a love jag over the past few years, and I cannot begin to tell you how beneficial it’s been. A very simple idea: We added spending time alone together every day as … Continue reading
Coco Chanel: “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
When you were young and you scowled or grimaced, your mother would say, “Be careful. Your face is going to freeze like that.” You thought she was making it up. The life you live — largely introspectively — writes its … Continue reading
Debunking Artificial Intelligence — while programming your computer to be almost as smart as your dog.
Everything you’ve been taught about Artificial Intelligence for your whole life is false. AI researchers are not frauds, I don’t think, but they’re exuberant when they talk to reporters, and the reporters are ignorant, thoughtless and brash. In real life, … Continue reading
Building the perfect beast: A round-up of my recent technology posts.
Caveat lector! The words you are about to read are unvetted, unhomogenized and unlicensed. One of my longer-term projects is to write essays on reasons why you should dismiss the things I have to say. I’ve only done two so … Continue reading
“That indicates that the brain vulnerabilities had a family origin, though somehow the siblings of addicts — either due to environmental factors or other differences in brain structure — were able to resist addiction.”
Somehow. The only motivation of purposive human behavior is free will. If you fail to understand this, even in the face of obvious evidence, you just might be an academic. Meanwhile, never doubt it: Making absurd, hysterical claims about human … Continue reading