Re: Little Meeting Room of Horrors

[Guest guest]

>I think it was on a.r.from-12-steps (when that NG could

>still be read) or it may be on the RR page that someone

>posted the text in the T & T of Tradition 6 - in which the

>author wryly muses on how they had ambitions to spread the

>program into " criminality, dope addiction " , create AA

>hospitals, and how AA members would tell judges who would

>get sent to AA and who to jail, etc. (I suspect the text

>is at least in part mendacious - it implies that these

>ambitions were the result of AA success, but the OGM had

>those ambitions before anyone could claim any effectiveness

>in overcoming alcoholism, let alone anything else, and hence

>did *not* start as a result of AA growth.)

>

>The poster suggested that all these ambitions have in fact

>happened. (Now almost everybody gets sent to AA even if

>they are sent to jail - at least if they want to get out).

>The explicit AA name isnt used - they have become NA, or

>become " independent " rehabs where the entire

>counselling/therapeutic staff belong to one *A group or

>another. The 12SP has become so safe, " even from " ,

>that like the plant in " Little Shop of Horrors " it is

>growing everywhere and devouring everyone in sight.

>

>Just as Xtianity, or at least montheism, is so

>well-established in our culture that Boy Scouts recite

>prayers, the 12SP is becoming completely endemic in

>US life, and in the West generally. The virus has become

>the mitochondria of the American cultural cell. Let us hope

>it is not cancerous.

>

>addict-l-request@...

Hi again Pete. That's an interesting statement. Thanks for the

forward.

The virus has, in fact, become cancerous. But for the last 10

years, society's defenses have been gathering and strenghtening.

I really believe the cancer is breaking down. Meetings are going to

hell. AA lunatics are being chastised in their own groups. Pro-

alternative books are high on bestseller lists in the Recovery

sections of Amazon, at least.

Sincerely,

" ... uniqueness IS the person. To snuff out

uniqueness is to try to snuff out people. "

Joe Berenbaum

>

>Pete

>----------------------

>Cool Briton

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