One of the Harley cult once asked me why I didn't have all the leather clothing he and his buddies were wearing. I told him it just seemed a little too Village People for my taste. He just nodded and turned away. I'm not sure he got it but his wife, who gave me the stink eye, certainly did. "Sorry, no leather chaps for me man."

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.