 In a 1982 article in the journal Theory & Society , Lewis & Clark College sociology professor Robert Goldman compared and contrasted Letterman 's " Ellsworth " character and his training program to that of Werner Erhard 's course Erhard Seminars Training . Goldman noted that the episode spent time : " lampooning Werner Erhard and est @-@ like commercial pop psychologies . " However , Goldman went on to note that the inherent problem with " Ellsworth Revitalization Konditioning " was not the training - but Ellsworth himself . 
