I would really like it if we had more and more facilitators, so that I can actually deliver my ill-conceived opinions just as everyone else gets to. As a facilitator, I keep order. The role of the facilitator is to encourage everybody else to be Socrates. Take the opinions, the beliefs and convictions, the truths that someone thinks they hold, and find holes in it and prove them wrong. To be truthful, that really does not happen a lot.
People come in here with their dogmas and they leave here with their dogmas.
They never really become convinced. They lock heads. They argue with great passion. It is great fun anyway. After we're done here, they go outside, pat one another on the back, have a cigarette, talk, then they go to their respective homes and, hopefully, do a little more than watch TV or read the paper, and think a little bit about what they've gone through.