"Forms that have ceased to facilitate and have become obstructive - have to be swept away. Signs are not wanting that some change is at hand. A host of satirists, led on by Thackeray, have long been engaged in bringing our sham-festivities, and our fashionable follies, into contempt; and in their candid moods, most men laugh at the frivolities with which they and the world in general are deluded. Ridicule has always been a revolutionary agent. Institutions that have lost their roots in men's respect and faith are doomed; and the day of their dissolution is not far off."
~ Herbert Spencer. Manners and Fashion (1854). "Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative". Vol. III. D. Appleton & Co. New York. 1901.
Welcome to the MySpace version of Visual Aids for the Sane.
Be sure to visit my home page: http://www.geocities.com/sanegallery/
I was a devoted member of Alcoholics Anonymous for 14 years. I left the movement in 1998 when I started realizing that the Twelve Step philosophy itself was my largest personal problem. I had to leave A.A. in order to protect my sanity. It really did come down to that.
My Visual Aids are a satirical retrospective of A.A. It was all pretty foolish, and I'm glad I see that now. But it was also pretty scary, and I'm thankful for those persons on the Internet who roused me and helped me to "deprogram" from all the fear and misinformation I had acquired as a young man in A.A.
I started creating A.A. satire in late 2002, opened the home page in January of 2003, and ceased creating new comics sometime in 2004.
I hope you enjoy the Visual Aids, and I look forward to building an interesting network of MySpace friends.
I do recognize that addiction of any sort can be a very serious personal and social issue. I'm simply an apostate of the monopolistic faith-based addiction care system that has dominated in America for the past several decades, and I have come to disagree with their beliefs about addiction and its solution. Please see my blogs for links to other recovery organizations and persons with divergent views.
Best Wishes,
Michael X.
26 March 2007
All artwork copyright 2003-2007 Michael X.
McRecovery comic conceived by Donna Gore