{"id":15831,"date":"2012-04-08T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15831"},"modified":"2012-04-08T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T18:06:58","slug":"a-celebration-of-me-man-alive-is-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15831\/a-celebration-of-me-man-alive-is-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"A celebration of me: Man Alive! is alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I just traded two weeks of my life for the rest of human history. That’s what it feels like. It’s funny even to me to live at that<\/em> level of hubris!<\/p>\n

I’ve always been able to work very hard when I need to, and I’ve always loved the way I feel when I finish: It’s the ultimate best<\/em> kind of soaring I get to do, a tremendous sense of enormous accomplishment that leaves me feeling everything but small. I don’t know where you might sip at your best taste of Splendor, but for me it comes from working hard, working wisely, working well, working beautifully<\/em> — and getting done.<\/em> I am the high-D who ate up all the d’s in the alphabet. I like to finish<\/em> big jobs masterfully.<\/p>\n

But today I swim<\/em> in Splendor. Today my world is all the way won — and won my way. Today I published a book of philosophy that will change the course of human history: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind.<\/a> The subject: Your mind and how you can save Western Civilization and make your own life more perfect by rethinking your moral philosophy.<\/p>\n

Just that topic itself is a thing of the most perfect hubris, and yet I swear I have the outlandish effrontery to insist that this one little book will — ultimately, when enough people embrace the ideas I uphold — reverse the tide of tyranny that has overrun the Earth. It’s 78 pages, total, just 32,000 words — a third of the length of a typical novel — and yet it bears within it the seeds of a brand new kind of life for billions of human beings.<\/p>\n

Which kind of life would that be? My kind, of course.<\/p>\n

I have taken it upon myself to lecture everyone alive — and everyone who will ever be alive in the future — on how to manage their minds. At length. In significant detail. And without much in the way of comfort or consolation.<\/p>\n

People who already think as I do, in the large, will love it. Not only do I confirm to them Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just traded two weeks of my life for the rest of human history. That’s what it feels like. It’s funny even to me to live at that level of hubris! I’ve always been able to work very hard when I need to, and I’ve always loved the way I feel when I finish: It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15910,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15910\/from-man-alive-the-love-of-splendor-is-the-life-divine\/","url_meta":{"origin":15831,"position":0},"title":"From Man Alive! – “The love of Splendor is the life divine.”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"From: Man Alive! 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