Great post Doc.
I agree with what you are saying here. There is a certain type of preciousness that can develop around sobriety, sometimes we use "language" as a tool to try and live up to something or someone we want to be and bypass reality to try and get there. The words we use can represent what we really think about drinking/using but it seems more often than not they represent an ideal of who we think we should be. Personally for me I much prefer trying to explore what is real, no secret self under my addictive self, for me an attempt to observe whats going on instead of trying to create it.
Its so easy to fall into the good/bad, right/wrong script in recovery. We are left with a subtle demonizing of our old life and a head in the clouds view of a new life, it can feel good for while but falls apart when we start living everyday lives.