Howdy. Keep coming back. It works. I’m a friend of Lois as well.
I do find post #56 to be more descriptive of what I feel than the BOHICA attitude of just “hitting bottom”. In my program, we do not have to accept unacceptable behavior. We can get off the downward elevator at any point. Allowing this illegal travesty and trying to get others to BOHICA over it is just enabling the behavior on the part of guvmint. Are we powerless over the guvmint?
Most of the thrust of the message is that we are utterly powerless over everything, and of course our Higher Power is the One who has all power...that’s all well and good, however the kind of activism we engage in here on FR is pretty much frowned upon, didn’t you notice? Socialism and tolerance of anything and everything is the zeitgeist of the movement...I’m so conflicted by it all, the contrast of Ayn Rand and Bill Wilson, that I’ve mainly been doing it on my own the last few years, and don’t go to meetings much anymore except as a safe harbor from the raging seas of life...but as we all know, a ship was not meant nor even made just to sit in the harbor, as Sarah Palin pointed out.
Individualism is utterly squashed in AA, however independent thought and creativity are the hallmarks of free-market capitalism that is so vilified in the rooms. Though many AA’s don’t realize it (many are unfamiliar with literature other than the program’s and related works), they are engaged in anti-capitalist socialism—any ideas that go counter to, or even in the least depart from, the program dogma are poo-poohed, laughed at, scorned, shouted down, etc...the groupthink is complete. I beleive that mostly it is the terror of the idea of relapse that keeps so many as slaves to the ego of Bill Wilson...