(I have to admit is seems, to me, odd that — after you said you were an AA for 30 years — you would need to be reminded of the old chestnut that “the fellowship is not the program”!)
I don’t need to be reminded it . The program itself is flawed.
From my book:
“However, my experience with both AA and NA is that the majority of people merely substitute their addiction to drugs or alcohol for an addiction to meetings, and the comforts and friendships they find there. This is not to say that I don’t believe there are rare individuals here and there who actually do wake up from the psychic sleep they live in, but not many. If you are one of the many individuals who has benefited to some extent from these programs, I hope you will realize that my criticism of the programs is well-meaning. And perhaps you will see through some of these programs’ institutionalized lies (i.e., you have a disease). It is the Truth that sets us free, not lies. “