u/Comprehensive-Tank92

The performative recovery is paramount. Talk about authenticity for the duration of your time in the spotlight. But dare to attempt authenticity , you will be sidelined .

It was after reading Bill Hicks Biography thst I joined Aa . Yoi could say that he 12 stepped me many years ago. I had no idea he was sober when he did rant in E minor. It blew me away that you could be so brutally honesr and funny witbout using alcohol.

I was also in a really bad place at the time . Alcohol isn't in the leaat bit attractive to me , especially seeing it's effects on other people who have been drinking for years.

I can't put it into words Aa also seems to kill people inside . I wonder if Bill Hicks was alive today what his take on it would be. He had a real gift for calling shit out. Vic Palmer does this excellently and thank goodness for this.

He's a real antidote to the soul destroying performance of recovery.

When I drank I often missed my last bus home and would go to a night club and hang around the bus station for 3 hours until the busses were running.

I was fortunate to be able to pick and choose when I worked so I was never off sick. It was actually quite a depressing way to live though but I felt smug seeing people going to work early hours and I was going to my bed.

I was nuts I know tbat and I won't return to that because it sucked. Why shoul I be conned into tdlling strangers my deepest darkest sectets on the empty promise of sobriety?

I always got the gut twinges from people who spoke about love and tollerance in flowery tones. They weren't promoting these nobel causes. They were boosting their persona and ego. They were also cleverly stifiling people who wanted to share with brutal honesty, who were the one's who did resonate witb me. Unfortunately they are often kept silent because their 'message' isn't carrying hope. Meanwhie Love and tollerance preacher got to spout their lines in the meering and be an utter scumbag after the show ended.