I love AA. I love its history, its principles and its Members.
It is, as many have said, the most important social movement of the last century. But its early explosive growth and the adoption of its principles by hundreds of clones from Cocaine to Gambling has evolved to a flattened growth curve and a loss of the sense of adventure that the Founders possessed. We are, I believe, moving in the wrong direction.
We are not yet at a crisis point, but we can see it from here. And it is getting closer.
North American numbers have flattened or declined, while the population has grown. Central offices everywhere are in trouble. The statistics, this time, do not lie.
This open letter is my commentary and analysis of the problem – and a solution that is within reach.