Sedayne,


The Green Man thing is obviously one of your pet issues and that's fair enough - I've looked at your web site and can see where you're coming from - and I'm not saying you're wrong in what you say. What I AM saying is that you've not spotted the plot here and have compared the incomparable.

Using phrases like 'new age posturings' makes me dismiss you as crabby. Maybe I'm over-reacting but it's just my opinion.

Concentrating on one issue which happens to be your pet hate leads me to think you have a narrow viewpoint.

The video is a frothy top level propagandist attempt to persuade people who don't know about the glories of our folk culture, in all its authentic and non-authentic guises, to take a closer look.

That the Green Man festival thing is made up, synthesised, misinterpreted etc. is irrelevant. Lots of people learn the wrong things before they learn the right things. Lots of people never get to learn the right things. It doesn't matter. The fact is that people do it and Doc includes it in his observation trail. Thus the editor included it in her video as a colourful part of the sequence.

There's a wider viewpoint.