How it Works: Indoctrination

Alcoholics Anonymous proceeds from false premises.

The idea that certain men and women are alcoholics, whereas everyone else in the world is normal.

The argument that people have to run their lives by someone else because they cannot think for themselves, because they are alcoholics -- all of this feeds into a narrative of false identity and works which never work.

This indoctrination is egged on because the state gets involved, forcing many people to go to this terrible cult.

Yet the truth indeed sets us free.

Does the program actually work?

No.

Any Google search will turn up studies exposing that there is no evidence that Twelve Step programs work.

There are a few people who end up getting sober, but the research strongly suggests that these individuals would have gotten sober with or without AA.

The scam of "How it Works" rests on the assumption that men and women who fail to stay sober have simply not committed themselves fully to the program

What will it take for anyone to commite fully?

How long can anyone spend continuing to take his or her inventory?

When will people start to realize that the program cannot work?

It all starts with attacking the premises.

People are not born alcoholic, nor do they stay that way.

There are numerous accounts of people who get sober without Twelve Steps.

Contrary to many of the assertions in the Big Book, people in AA meetings are a glum lot.

The Good News of Jesus Christ cannot be compared with steps and works which never bring a man to a better place.

The program does not work, and even the most effective of people, the most well-meaning never find their lives getting better.

How it works? By indoctrination, and nothing more, and even then, it does not work.