A couple of lines from a couple of different songs seem appropriate to me at this juncture of our debate.
First Parry Farrell of Jane's Addiction:
She takes a swing that she can't hit.She don't mean no harm,she just don't know what else to do about it.
And then Pete Townsend of The Who:
But my dreams,they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be.I have hours only lonley.My love is vengance that's never free.
I probably knew that attempting to help dismantle the barriers seperating the truth from the lie and abomination that is Alcoholics Anonymous'stanglehold on contemporary thought regarding the treatment and care of individuals experiencing difficulties with societies reaction to their behavior by pointing out that Michael O'Sullivan is a racict and an A.A. member
would be a rediculous folly.But whaddyagonna do?In a world where a war on drugs shatters thousands of non-threatening lives a year...In a world where teenagers are subjected to grotesque constructions of demented psychologies...In a world growing increasing uglier and meaner by the day...In a world of conniving,frightened sickness and otherwise well-intentioned people duped into greater and greater abuses in the name of "tough love",I thought this might be a good time to raise a ruckus.If a politician has to identify his religion or an illness is fair game for public discussion,so is A.A. involvement.No longer can we allow A.A. to operate behind the scenes.
If you had seen as many atrocities as I have in A.A.your heart would probably ache a little bit too.I've seen too many inebriated people beaten,too many families,friendships and relationships broken in the name of "making A.A. the most important thing in your life",too much "NAZI" sobriety producing a bizzare cookie-cutter metality of learned helplessness and way too much hate.
Does that make me miserable?You're fuckin'A skippy............