Title: Back To Wally P's Cult -- a better title
Review: With its aggressive, antagonistic posture towards real AA meetings, its crazy promises of redemption, its ugly evangelism within AA, its cadres of Mr. Wally Paton's blank-eyed, boot-lickin' followers, I think it's safe to say that the Back To Basics movement has become a true (if cellularly organized) cult.And it's not AA. Not even close. The book offers a fundamentally selfish interpretation of AA's principles and lore. Mr. Paton has absolutely zero academic or journalistic credentials, and his much self-promoted "research" on the origins of AA can be, and should be, safely ignored.Dig a little deeper into the Back To Basics movement, and you'll find a scary, right-wing collection of diversity-hating nuts and bullies. As with any bullies, the only solution is to speak up and confront them.
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