What was the nature of Fullers involvement with Werner Erhardt, EST and the World Hunger Project?
[From Kirby Urner] Around 1980, Werner Erhard rediscovered Fuller and found Fuller’s lifelong commitments (to serve “omnihumanity”) were illustrative of his own “making the world work for everyone” motto. Fuller appeared jointly with Erhard in Madison Square Gardens, where Erhard delivered emotional praise and Fuller spoke for several hours about the need to promote tetrahedra over cubes as a way of saving humanity (I was not present — as an est graduate, I was getting the newsletter and read about it, and this sparked my renewed interest in Fuller and sent me off to read Critical Path)… Fuller’s grandson, Jaime, did the est Training and for some time there was overlap in interest and volunteers. Asked what Fuller thought of Erhard on the Larry King show, Fuller said he thought he was “a good boy” or something to that effect (contrary to Erhard’s own assertions that he was “bad” — in the Michael Jackson sense perhaps). EST was supposed to be in lower case, meaning “to be”
