In one meeting, one of the members shared that AA has got to be the greatest Pyramid Scheme there is.
A pyramid scheme depends on one person sharing an idea with two or three people, and then those same three share with the same people, and so on and so on.
The whole set up reminds me of the Farah Fawcett Commercial. "He tells a friend, then he tells a friend. . " The commercial showed a picture of Fawcett in one screen, then two screens, then four screens, then eight.
There is one problem with that analogy. In a pyramid scheme, each person profits and then pays it forward. In AA, people come and lose something, and they keep on losing,then they bring in other people, telling that they are losers who need to do certain things, and then they end losing more, and so on.
AA is not a Pyramid scheme, but a Ponzi scheme based on negativity and self-loathing, contradictions which end up creating the very problems which the program claims to resolve.
Men and women who have a problem with alcohol cannot break free by being defined by the problem. By identifying with the perversion, the only that someone, anyone, can break free is to die!
One chapter in the "Big Book" claims that members of the program are "reborn" -- how can one be reborn" if they are "alcoholics", men and women who have "lost their legs."
AA does not give anything to anyone because the program is based on lies and distortions. The truth sets you free, but lies bring you into bondage. Any program that puts a person into bondage is a program that takes away, not gives.
A Ponzi scheme works exactly in that manner. Some charlatan, like Bernie Madoff, promises a huge return on an investment, but the money for this scheme comes from hitting someone else up for more money, and part of those funds pay off the first person, and so on. The idea in the end is that the Ponzi schemer makes off with lots of money, while the investors are left holding the empty promises, the broken bonds, and hollow wallets.
Madoff made off with a lot of other people's "made off", but in the end, he got caught.
Bill W.'s Ponzi Scheme is still rolling. In the halls of AA, "old timers" have given up everything just to work a "simple program", so in order to "make the most" of their "new status", they bring more people into the program, since they have to share the Twelve Steps with as many people as they can, and practice those principles in all their affairs.
In effect, the program leaves them with a deficit that must be filled by bringing other people into the program, who in turn are brought into bondage with an identity based on a negative aspect, one which tells them that if they do not work this "simple program",they will drink, and to drink is to die.
AA is a Ponzi Scheme, one of the worst, because the program is still running, and those who work this program lose more than their money -- they lose their lives.
AA ponsi has those at bottom suffering and dying because only 10% or less maintain long term sobriety. Those at top make millions from sales of self help books (no authors names attached), magazine subscriptions, jewelry, "sober" cruises, etc. Lets not forget all the 12 step recovery programs costing thousands of $ which also have revolving doors because they don't work. Step 8 tells alcoholic them have "defects of character." Hitler, Charles Manson, White Bulgier are people with defective characters because they were/are sociopaths. Alcoholics have a problem with their brains releasing too much endophen when they drink. NALTREXONE a non addictive medication blocks endophen release so disease can be cured. Medical community still asleep regarding this. No money to be made here. Just lives to be saved.
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