During the State Of The Union Address Bush made the first step in admitting US addiction to oil. I'm sure we're all willing to help Bush in his recovery process.
- Admitted that we Americans are addicted to oil and that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a system better than this one could restore us to sanity.
- Made a conscious decision to turn our lives and our will over to working with others in a good orderly direction.
- Made a fearlessly honest moral inventory, taking into consideration the whole population of the US as they expressed themselves freely without manipulating the media or infringing on constitutional rights.
- Admitted to the US Congress the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Humbly admitted the exact nature of our wrongs and became willing to make amends for our past excesses and abuses of peoples and power.
- Asked for help from the world community to develop new ways of sustaining our lives without causing irreversible damage to the environment.
- Made a list of those peoples and countries we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people and countries wherever possible, except when to do so would cause more harm than good.
- Continued to take moral inventory of American foreign policy.
- Sought through diplomacy and negotiation to improve our contact with the world community.
- Having recovered from our ambition for world-domination and imperialist foreign policies, we tried to carry this message to any other country who suffers from the same, and to practice these principles of peaceful co-existence and respect for diversity in all our affairs.
The Thirteenth Step: Watch out for those who have seen the light and would seduce you into their system because they know your own good better than you do.
see also:
Oil Addicts Anonymous Open Chapters Across the Midwest
by ENN Press Release
Published on 14 Feb 2005
12 Step Recovery From Abusive Relationship Between Ourselves & The Bush Regime
A Progressive 12-step Program
By Bob Burnett, AlterNet. Posted February 5, 2005.
Remember: As much as one would like to help Bush and Big Business recover from their addiction to oil, power, and domination, there are those who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates, they are not at fault, they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average....
On Rigorous Honesty & The Sickness of Lying
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of a priest for the sake of gain, and, in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive anything more destructive to morality than this?
Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason
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