Do you remember the classic film' The Wicker man' from the 70's Tony?
Edward Woodward plays a police officer that goes to a remote Scottish Island to search for a missing girl and finds that a religious cult are planning to sacrifice her and it becomes a race against time to find her before the kill her.It ends up with a superb twist in that he is the person they want to sacrifice and he has been lulled there with the sole aim of killing him instead of the girl because they know his morals and beliefs will make him strong enough to try to do the right thing.
I saw this article today about a remote Scottish island view on the Sabbath and it made me think how we have gone full circle in thinking,as it's not so long ago that Sunday was a day of worship and rest, with services not available because it was a protected day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/01/golfers-sabbath-ban-stornowayThe view expressed by 'the lords observance society' in that article now seem as obscure to most people as the religious cult's beliefs in the Wicker Man but it can only be 20 years since they were the norm almost everywhere.
Hi Phil,
No, I never saw it. I never really got into watching films.
Your point as to how things have changed - & in some cases gone full circle - has exercised me enormously of late. (A typical age thing, I suppose).
Sunday, yes, Shops were not allowed to open on "the Sabbath" not so long ago. I actually got prosecuted for selling non-perishable goods on a Sunday, & later charged with Contempt of Court when I tried to get smart by ostensibly "selling" tomatoes, & giving away the products I was selling (DIY goods) for free. If I were genuinely Jewish, I could have traded, in fact. I tried that, too, but got caught out on a minor physical detail.
"Early Closing day" (Wednesday or Thursday mostly) have disappeared, too.
I was reminded yesterday of a most peculiar phenomenon that arose in 1968, after Devaluation - "I'm Backing Britain". We all worked an extra hour per day, for free, "for the Nation". A compete nonsense really, but it did generate a wonderful feel-good factor, similar to after the '66 World Cup, or post-Falkland. It all ended on a sour note, though, when the Unions got arsey.
A decade or two later, the Internet started to come into common use, & 5 years later, late 90's I think, Online Poker was "invented".
Online Poker then boomed & boomed, until the last year, when overall revenues & traffic began a significant decline, & nobody seems to be able to predict when the graph will change direction, or even if it will.
Full circle is one thing, but it's the speed of change which is so remarkable.
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