[...] it is not only by emphasizing simplicity and sincerity that Wallace's AA plays its central role in Infinite Jest's philosophical therapy; it is rather by advancing a picture of thought, and of philosophy, that will seem unfamiliar and perhaps initially banal to most of his readers. The idea is not to install belief in AA, or in anything else, but rather to expose the confusions and limitations of the picture of thinking to which many of Wallace's readers and characters already subscribe. Wallace uses AA not to introduce his readers to a new model of belief but to bring them to consciousness about what they already believe.