This doesn't make it Folk though, it's just the way things are.

I'll have to agree to disagree with Richard on your discursus into the Dao, i.e. I dug it. But it does strike me as sublimely irrelevant (as well as irrelevantly sublime) - a distinction that makes no difference, just like the one about being played by people. If everything's 'folk' then 'folk' means nothing.