@Rockhead,
Maybe they are much too cheap Rockie. At $150 any Tom, Dick, or Harry can get one and look at the fine mess that has got us into.
It's an interesting idea to me. The comparison between the expression forms of personal communication when the medium, paper, was expensive: Jane Austen wrote some of her stuff on old envelopes and the Dead Sea Scrolls were written on the hairy side of pieces of leather sewn together with flaxen threads, and the expression forms we find on this very inexpensive carrier of our thoughts. For many of us it is free.
And look what Rembrandt communicated when the medium was out of reach of all but a few. Notice how movies deteriorated when video replaced expensive film.