the intellectual's resistance to swallowing it whole
certain quite glaring inconsistencies in this master quote unquote Program you all seem to expect us simply to open up and blindly swallow whole and then walk around glazed with our arms right out straight in front of us parroting, reciting.
Context
The educated newcomer's whole case against AA, brought to the one staffer patient enough to hear it: a Program that seems to demand you swallow it whole and recite it zombie-armed, whose central message at every meeting is the importance of attending more meetings, the carrot forever receding down the road of still more trudging. Day's objections are real and sharply put, and the scene's method is to let them stand unrefuted — the critique of the recursion is correct, and the question is whether being correct about it helps.