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I worked with addiction services and AA, for me, seemed quite culty. Its not explicit that "acknowledge that you have to hand your personal agency over to an imagined 'higher power'" is one of the steps.
They start using these in-group phrases and shit.. it always felt like they were seconds away from having secret handshakes and assigning themselves ranks like "deputy high priest of "I used to drink all the time""
Don't they effectively have ranks? You get coins to show your "progress" within the cult. Maybe it's not treated quite the same as rank, but it's hard to say it's that different.
Is this in the US?
Trusting in the socially constructed idea of a higher power to keep you sober is a valid strategy according to chaos magick, but it only works if you're a bottom. You have to have the kind of personality that wants to be dominated by Daddy. Doesn't work if you're a top.