the ones broken enough to stick
Some Substance-dependent persons, though, have already been so broken by the time they first Come In that they don’t care about stuff like substitution or banality, they’ll give their left nut to trade their original dependence in for robotic platitudes and pep-rally cheer. They’re the ones with the gun to their head, the ones who stick and Hang.
Context
The answer to the substitution-critique completed: the ones who make it are simply the ones broken enough not to care whether it's substitution or banality — they'll trade the pipe for robotic platitudes gladly because they've a gun to their head. The Program does not win the argument; it wins the desperate. Sticking and Hanging is not a matter of being convinced but of being beaten past the point where the clever objection can still function as an exit. This is the theme's whole hard theology of surrender.