Making a Big Plan in AVRT is the ultimate irrationality. Consciously deciding to pledge to oneself to commit to unconditional abstinence directly flies in the face of the Beast's rational plan of having its desire, its reason for being indulged.
Viewed as a rouge survival instinct the drive itself 'acts' consistently and rationally toward its goal of 'more'.
Before separation from It, our goals and ambitions are simpatico with Its , we are one with It. Active addiction is the state of being 'all Beast', any action counter to or acting against our own interests would be irrational.
The question than becomes are we all Beast? Does the Beast encompass all that we are or is It only a part or aspect of our total 'selves'?
As an internal drive the Beast , qua entity, only 'sees' itself and acts to fulfill its needs, the AV is the mechanism that drives our interpretation that the Beast is an inseparable aspect of self, that It is more than a discrete, isolatable desire.
Conscious recognition that the desire for alcohol is just of one countless desires that we are 'subject' to, goes along way toward understanding how a desire can be felt and yet left unindulged.
The same mechanisms that produce the feeling of thirst , the desire for hydration and when acted on result in gaining and or keeping our 'health' are operative in the Beast. The glitch in the matrix is that Its desire , if acted on, is a net negative to health and ultimate survival.
Take the totally irrational stance that you pledge to never again drink and arbitrarily assign a guaranteed 100% success rate to the outcome because , as crazy as it sounds( to the Beast) you Can !