I love watching and listening to
Werner working.
There's an art and an accuracy to
creating
a
conversation for
transformation,
and I love watching and listening to Werner
creating
it just as much as I would if, say, I could be in his studio and watch
Michelangelo hew La Pieta out of the marble slab.
There was a point in the
est
Training
where the
participants
got how they're completely run by the machinery of their lives. They
get the
futility
of it all.
I watched as one fellow rose up, anguished, to challenge
Werner.
He explained to
Werner
and to the rest of the
participants
how mistaken
Werner
was. He argued fervently he was a human being and not a machine.
Not atypically he had collapsed both distinctions leaving neither of
them powerful or useful.
But
Werner
has directed this process more than anyone else in the entire universe
today. He didn't just start preparing to direct it for the first time
on his way to the
training
room. He's a veteran. He's not merely a national treasure. He is a
planetary
treasure. He really knows
who he is,
and if you're going to dispute you are a machine,
Werner Erhard
is not someone to tangle with lightly.
* * *
After their exchange reached its
inexorable
conclusion, when
Werner Erhard
asked him "Did you get it?" he responded beaming "Yes! But I don't like
it ...".
I could see all his
resistance
had flattened out. He was radiant. He was at the start of a whole new
way of being in
the world.