I will be doing an hour-long presentation on my book Man Alive! at the The 21 Convention in Austin. The convention runs from August 17th – 19th, and I will be speaking first-thing in the morning on Saturday, August 18th.
My topic? Intellectual self-defense amidst the last-gasp collapse of Rotarian Socialism. Not too surprising if you’ve read Man Alive! My plan is to go through a number of specious arguments, with examples, showing you how to defend your self from the pandemic deceptions deployed by demagogues to defend tyranny.
The 21 Convention is put together by Anthony “Dream” Johnson. It seeks to “surface, restore, and actualize the ideal in man” — a goal I can heartily endorse. There will be a total of 18 speakers over the three days of the event, including Yaron Brook of The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights and Richard Nikoley of FreeTheAnimal.com.
Anthony Johnson runs his events like Brian Brady and I should run ours, very professional and strictly business. If you want to come see me or the other speakers — with topics ranging from philosophy to politics to health and fitness to sexual relations — you can buy tickets by clicking on this link. That’s an affiliate link, which means that I’m getting a piece of the business, if that matters to you. You can buy three-day or one-day tickets, with upsells, but note that the prices go up on July 31st. There will be video of the presentations available for sale after the event.
I’m interested in doing more of these, if you have a microphone available for me. I’m doing philosophy at the 21 Convention, but there are a lot of topics covered and touched upon in Man Alive! that I would like to bring to an audience. As an example, I can do an hour on orgasms that will change your life forever. To see what I can do without an audience — on philosophy, not orgasms — visit the Videocast category at SelfAdoration.com. Meanwhile, if you’re going to be in Central Texas next month, come give me a look. I plan to put on a killer show.
Sean Purcell says:
Greg, this sounds like a great event, and one I’m sad to miss. Please post when the videos are for sale and thanks for all the intellectual help. I just reread “Meet the Third Thing” and it is powerful stuff…
July 30, 2012 — 7:44 am
Greg Swann says:
Bless you, sir. Thank you.
That essay will kick the stilts out from under any defender of the monopoly state. Don’t about all the reasons you insist you must have one. Tell me how you can justify it as anything other than crime?
July 30, 2012 — 3:16 pm
Stew Coleman says:
Greg, thanks for mentioning this. I work with a real estate group in Austin and I’m going to ask around to see if anyone else is interested in going. Looking forward to it.
August 2, 2012 — 8:12 am
Greg Swann says:
Ah, good on ya. I’d love to meet you.
August 2, 2012 — 10:23 am