I never thought I was the type who'd join a cult. But I did. It's not a cult of personality, but of technology.
Most religious cults attract the disillusioned members of organised religions.
Likewise, the members of my cult had become disenchanted with the increasingly inscrutable world of the personal computer. Many of us had already sold our souls to the devil, surrendering our Macintoshes for the seemingly global compatibility of Windows. Quickly caught in an endless cycle of upgrades, we became slaves to our machines. Colossal programs ate our RAM and pay cheques. And the more opaque they got, the less we understood about what we were doing.