The Course of Progress

The group conscience of AA is a wonderful, though sometimes a fearful, thing. We have with us the conservatives, the liberals and the radicals. The conservatives often put an end to many an unworthy project. But if they had their way entirely, almost nothing would be done. Sometimes they would rot us by preventing action. On the other hand, the radicals would quickly ruin us, if they had their way, by all sorts of actions that are no good. So the course of progress is somewhere down the middle. . .all of the influences, good and bad, are needed as spurs to progress. . .