The 'recovery' movement insinuates itself deep inside the
American psyche and now the Euro psyche. And its blanket spreads
from alcohol, to narcotics, overeating, sexaholics, under the simple
(leave your brains outside the door) catch-phrases of 12-step
programmes: ‘with God’s help one day at a time’,
With sexaholics 'the substance I used was human beings.’
confesses Alan, yes that compulsive sexual behaviour is an
‘addiction’ - something Alan nowhere feels the need to explain, although in a bravura may
and with mock humility he fills us in on the detail. "Then there was this woman..." jaysus I never had his kind of luck you reflect somewhat bitterly. Still I never could understand and what they failed to see in moi.
But AA seems to provide Alan with the internal mooring that was missing from his piercing ways,
Now he is swathed in the blanket of the casually redemptive language of 12-step confessional programme where he receives a round of applause ("My primary loyalty was to sex") in church basements rooms for his long term
abuse of women. One can't help noticiing, as Alan self-discloses, that he sports purses of flesh
under his eyes and his macho open necked shirt sport turkey type folds of flesh, and he sports a chunky crucifix in a travelling people or gens de voyage mode. Miaaooow.
One has to wonder what 'all these women' saw in him, and didn't see in me.
What we have here in AA is a lax form of discourse, which focuses on victimization to the exclusion of other personal responsibility factors.
This resassignation of responsibility to other forces beyond one's control
speaks volumes about the influence and modus operanidi of the recovery movement.
Over-eaters, over-shoppers, over-workers –
everyone has their confessional niche these days and none of it, if you are 'on the programme', is your fault. Why? 'Becuase you had an illnes'. What!! run that one by me again.
"...and then this woman came into my life, or I came into hers..somehow I managed to get her sexual password and..." Alan,. I would like to smack you right on the chin so as you shut up. But then I feel Alan has been saved by a lot of these are, by stupidity. Yes, they have a saving stupidity.
.And culture's would appear to approve of all these people being sanitised as they clean up their act.
Is there an economic underpinning to all this as culture smiles
and is there Foucaldian discourses directing one towards the comforting sign?
Alan is still boning on about all the women he has 'had', will the stupid conceited fucker ever stop talking, not another conquest of the fair sex..... and you think of how Byron famously remarked that ‘Augustine in his fine Confessions makes the reader envy his transgressions’.
American psyche and now the Euro psyche. And its blanket spreads
from alcohol, to narcotics, overeating, sexaholics, under the simple
(leave your brains outside the door) catch-phrases of 12-step
programmes: ‘with God’s help one day at a time’,
With sexaholics 'the substance I used was human beings.’
confesses Alan, yes that compulsive sexual behaviour is an
‘addiction’ - something Alan nowhere feels the need to explain, although in a bravura may
and with mock humility he fills us in on the detail. "Then there was this woman..." jaysus I never had his kind of luck you reflect somewhat bitterly. Still I never could understand and what they failed to see in moi.
But AA seems to provide Alan with the internal mooring that was missing from his piercing ways,
Now he is swathed in the blanket of the casually redemptive language of 12-step confessional programme where he receives a round of applause ("My primary loyalty was to sex") in church basements rooms for his long term
abuse of women. One can't help noticiing, as Alan self-discloses, that he sports purses of flesh
under his eyes and his macho open necked shirt sport turkey type folds of flesh, and he sports a chunky crucifix in a travelling people or gens de voyage mode. Miaaooow.
One has to wonder what 'all these women' saw in him, and didn't see in me.
What we have here in AA is a lax form of discourse, which focuses on victimization to the exclusion of other personal responsibility factors.
This resassignation of responsibility to other forces beyond one's control
speaks volumes about the influence and modus operanidi of the recovery movement.
Over-eaters, over-shoppers, over-workers –
everyone has their confessional niche these days and none of it, if you are 'on the programme', is your fault. Why? 'Becuase you had an illnes'. What!! run that one by me again.
"...and then this woman came into my life, or I came into hers..somehow I managed to get her sexual password and..." Alan,. I would like to smack you right on the chin so as you shut up. But then I feel Alan has been saved by a lot of these are, by stupidity. Yes, they have a saving stupidity.
.And culture's would appear to approve of all these people being sanitised as they clean up their act.
Is there an economic underpinning to all this as culture smiles
and is there Foucaldian discourses directing one towards the comforting sign?
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