They have been rendered docile, manipulated by mere spectacle, and anaesthetised by enforced compliance to the extent that they willingly participate in a sacrifice which is, in actuality, simply a desperate buying of time as the foundations of the aristocratic order of Summerisle begin to crumble.

Absolutely brilliant!

The best interpretation of the Wicker Man I've ever read. Such a refreshing change from the usual unquestioning adulation of the supposedly pagan themes by self-styled folk fauns. Authoritarian faux-paganism. That's mah new religion!

There's a full length article in here somewhere and you're definitely the man to write it...