Powers’ “strong tea – weak tea” analogy is PERFECT, watering down being the exact, literal cause of the weakening of the tea. It cannot be 1976, because that’s when we were informed by Tom Powers Sr., in Gresham’s Law & Alcoholics Anonymous, that the AA world was already on its way to Hell in a hand-basket. So just when WAS the golden era, the time BEFORE the adulteration that sent us hurtling into the abyss? There is nothing new in our newer people being told, by our not-so-new people, that AA isn’t at all like what it was in the old days, God damn it!! The 2004 guy is told this by the 1999 guy, who was told this by the 1991 guy who told this by the 1986 guy, who was… who was… Probably, the 2017 guy is even told about the glory days by the 2015 guy.
…the American Medical Association, anda’s, harm reductionists, Oprah, psychiatrists, Narcotics Anonymous, Buddhism, group therapy, naltrexone, meeting makers… All are seen at different times, and in different ways, as having contributed to the watering down of AA, and the sacred message of 1939. …druggies, open disgusting meetings, Al-Anon, “Acceptance Is The Answer,” physicians, Pax Prentice, AA Agnostica, Larry K., donut eaters, the Russians, the word “suggested,” Roger, and a partridge in a pear tree…īook thumpers are even greatly disturbed and perturbed by other corrupting, albeit conference-approved, literature such as Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Living Sober, and The Grapevine. Apart from treatment centers, the prime culprits for the added H2O diluting our tea are court referrals, agnostics, hard drinkers, two-steppers, 13th steppers, atheists, weak sponsors… In general, we lay the culpability for AA’s undeniable decline squarely at the feet of the accursed (3 syllables) agents of the watering down of Alcoholics Anonymous. Nobody Move!!!!!! Some sumabitch misplaced a semi-colon!! Dogmatic adherence to our non-dogmatic book describing our non-dogmatic program is the very essence of our non-dogmatic dogma.
Within our non-religious society (no offense, Toronto Intergroup), it IS imperative that one and all MUST (we have a musty book) follow AA’s program religiously.
Power of the horde playall plus#
For forty plus years, they have been indicted for all manner of loosey-goosiness running counter to the dogma of an organization that continually professes to have no dogma. The ultimate in scapegoats of choice may well be treatment centers. The further we move to the right, and into the dominion of those deeply committed to the “Rarely have we seen a person fail…” narrative, the greater the passion to rationalize the increasing hordes of slackers failing to “thoroughly follow our path”. The names are gravely uttered through the gritted teeth and snarled lips of our fundamentalist members, the keepers of the faith. Various individuals, groups, and institutions comprise the extensive cast of offenders.
On any given day, the AA world witnesses a remarkable volume of whining about the watering down of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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