“the rapidly effective cult brainwashing of the 12step religion”?

Man, I wish. I watch guys dieing on the installment plan, (read alcoholics) going through the revolving door that is AA every day. I have no interest in brainwashing anybody, but I wish AA, or any other path to recovery for that matter worked so well as that.

I would steer every wet drunk I know there. But we all know, or should know that most of us just die wet. It is a tragedy of the first order, and nothing seems to make much of a dent in it.

It would be so great if some mind control method was devised that would change raging alcoholics into productive and happy human beings. Anything is preferable to an alcoholic death. But if there is such a thing, I don’t know about it.

Richard