Now it's unlikely this
question
is
distinguished
as a
question,
because prior to the onset of
transformation,
not much is ever
authenticallydistinguished
anyway. And we all get along quite well mind you, even without
intentionally
making
distinctions.
Look: we've developed life on
the planet
using our
creativity
and our productivity, to the
state
it's in today. We've even reached the milestone which marks the
possibility of global
transformation
becoming an entrant on the
world's
stage and into its political discourse. Yes it's
clear
we've got room to improve. It's equally
clear
we've also got many things just right.
But if you stop and look ie if you stand flat-footed and just
look, you'll notice prior to the onset of
transformation,
and prior to the possibility of global
transformation,
the way
we lived life (which is to say
the way
we were certain life was meant to be lived) was in
order to survive. And in the
background
of this faux certainty, was the
undistinguishedquestion
"Do you know? Do you know?" which was
addressed unspoken to anyone and everyone in
close
proximity: "Do you know (what it's all about)?", "Do
you know (what we're supposed to do)?", "Do
you know
(the point of it all)?",
"Do you know
(who you really are)?",
"Do you know
(who I really
am)?",
"Do you know (how I can find outwho I really am)?",
"Do you know (if we'll make it)?", "Do you
know (whatever)?" etc. The
question
translates to "Have you
figured out
(whatever)?" which I'll bet good
money
is a cover for the under-pinning "Will we survive?".
And then you got
transformation
-
close up, face to face,
larger than life, and twice as natural.
It astounded you. It astonished you. It teased you and titillated you.
You got
there's nothing to get.
It made you laugh with the stunning simplicity and audacity of it. It
made you
cry
with the
magnificent
compassion and gorgeous
brilliance
of it. And even though you couldn't
believe
it ... there it was. If you're a
graduate
of
Werner's work,
you probably got it in a hotel ballroom under a
plastic
chandelier.
That's when and where you discovered (and
began
to confront, arguably for the first
time
in your life) that you really (honest to
God)
know
nothing.
Even those things you once thought you knew, you now realize you only
knew in order to survive. And the beauty of it is now that you know you
know
nothing,
and now that you know there's
nothing
to
figure out,
and now that you know there's
nothing to get,
there's the possibility of knowing it all in an entirely new
way.