The Bulldog is rejoining after a too long hiatus and apologizes....he will be a regular attendee and blogger from now on......He does have - to mangle a metaphor -- a bee in his bonnet this AM....it's the "I've got mine, screw you" mentality that increasingly seems to pervade the 12 step rooms these days.....Where has real 12 stepping gone? No I don't mean that erzatz bull shit that passes for same these days i.e. a welcomer who greets folks at the bottom of the stairs.....newsflash they are the lucky ones....for every lucky person walking down those steps there are 100 out there suffering...what about them.
Increasingly as the Dawg prowls the rooms in the US, Europe and other more exotic climes, there is an aura of I've got mine, screw the rest of them....I'm here to lifestyle dump and the hell with the rest of you......how many groups keep a 12 step list any more....run temporary sponsorship programs...this is aall both sad and predictable....12 step groups usually mimic society as a whole and society as a whole has become a very self centered....I know that supposedly the crash will lead to some quote on quote social introspection, but we all know that rarely lasts.....so I am asking the question that always makes them squirm in the room these days...."When was the last time you shared your experience, strength and hope with some one outside the rooms?"....Do you even care........
If your answer to the first is recently and the second is yes, then ignore this rant. If, as I suspect for most of us, it is not then as was once said "We have met the enemy and it is us."
