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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.
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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.
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
Category Archives: Splendor
Imagine no schoolteachers: Salman Khan brings free on-line education to anyone who wants it.
The quotes below are culled from an interview with Salman Khan in MIT’s Technology Review, which I saw by way of Instapundit. I’ve reversed the order of the questions and answers I’m highlighting, putting them in their order of importance … Continue reading
Start the day dancing: Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse
There’s something about her hand holding mine…
Black Friday? Grey Thursday? Before the flood, a pensive Wednesday night at Walmart.
I love Walmart. I am very happy to call myself a member of the middle class, and I take huge delight in cruising the aisles at Walmart, scoping out all the incredible deals. I don’t buy a lot of stuff, … Continue reading
Admiring human arrogance and abhorring the affectation of humility.
I’m in the process of re-purposing SplendorQuest.com to make it more about the quest for Splendor, and that lizard seems like an excellent place to start. The photo was taken by my friend Cheryl Johnson, blogmother to thousands and champion … Continue reading
Delayed gratification: “Come Hither, Darling” is still to come.
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
Rats on cocaine might like Miles Davis, but all tax-funded academics know this for sure: Free money is more addictive than anything!
You just can’t make this shit up.
From Man Alive! – “The love of Splendor is the life divine.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 12. The love of Splendor is the life divine. There is one more idea I want to take up with you, and I think it is the … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “Indomitable you.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 11. Indomitable you. We all know that slavery is abominable, a vile and vicious practice, indefensible on any grounds. And yet we may not know – or … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “A mindful catalog of mindlessness.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 10. A mindful catalog of mindlessness. I like to play a philosophy game I call Backstory. I will look at someone – anyone I happen to see … Continue reading
From Man Alive! – “The high cost of mindlessness.”
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 9. The high cost of mindlessness. Because you never trained your mind to think about the ontology of human nature – don’t fault yourself for that; no … Continue reading