Can Our Intelligence Kill Us?

THE AA program is a peculiar thing. It can be grasped as easily by the simple mind as by the most erudite. The simple person accepts on faith what the Twelve Steps tell us, puts them into practice, finds they work and is satisfied. The learned man accepts them in the same way, puts them to work and finds they are an unending source of new ideas and comfort. . . . We used to think that the AAs who insisted on complicating the programme weren't really intellectuals, but pseudo-intellectuals. They just thought they were smart.