So the $2,500 I spent in 1984 for my original Macintosh would be $5,140 now and the $1,200 for my first VCR in 1980 would be $3,385.


We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.