Conversations For Transformation:
Essays Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
Ideal Medium
Exertec Health and Fitness Center,
Napa,
California, USA
November 7, 2015
It's a question that came up in a recent
conversation
- that is, it came up again in a recent
conversation,
just as it's frequently come up in
conversations
before that one. It's this: is there an ideal medium for
transformation?
Is there even such a thing as the perfect
context
for bringing forth
transformation
that's all of reliable and getable and shareable? Or: is there a
suitable Petri dish in which to culture
transformation
(if you will)? As far as I can tell (which is to say "in my
experience"), yes there is. I assert the ideal medium for
transformation
ie the medium in which
transformation
best thrives, is
speaking
and
listening
in
face to faceconversation.
Listen:
that doesn't mean it's not possible (and I'm not saying it's not
possible) to experience aspects of
transformation
in
poetry
and literature and
music.
What it does mean (and what I am saying) is that
poetry
and literature and
music
simply aren't
transformation's
ideal media - because they're not
face to faceconversations.
If
poetry
and / or literature are going to be effective in making aspects of
transformation
available (that is if
poetry
and / or literature are going to be as effective as they can possibly
be in making
transformation
available), I assert they'll have to express a certain
presence
of the
writer
/ author in the medium ie they'll have to express a certain
presence of
Self
generated by the
writer
/ author in the media. If
music
is going to be effective in making aspects of
transformation
available (that is if
music
is going to be as effective as it can possibly be in making
transformation
available), I assert it'll have to express a certain
presence
of the composer /
performer
in the medium ie it'll have to express a certain
presence of Self
generated by the composer /
performer
in the medium.