Is Ritual Sacrifice embedded into the fabric of society?

As a kid I remember an old film were this guy rescues this girl from another guy. Then throughout the film the couple spend it running from that guy(a warlock) and a witches coven. In the end the warlock recaptures the girl so our hero has to rescue her again, this time from a ritual sacrifice. Only this time he gets there and he's betrayed by his best friend and the girl. Our hero then finds out the whole thing was an elaborate rouse to trick him into coming to the ritual on his own free will and accord as it is the only way an offering can be sacrificed.

I'm not a warlock so I can't say from experience that this is how it's done. But if one looks about the world today with a mindful eye. Ritual sacrifice is going on around us all the time and the commercial exchange system has incorporated this right into the very fabric of society.

I know most Evolvers probably don't do a lot of fast food, I'm going to use one such establishment as my example although this is clearly not an isolated incident. Because from the moment you enter onto the grounds, you've crossed under and into the temple of the golden arches. You, the willing participant then make your way to the alter. Order from the high priest or priestess a type of slow poison, much of which comes from some type of animal which was sacrificed off site at whole other type of temple. You then present the priest or priestess with a talisman with a lot of masonic symbols on it. The sacrament is then prepared by a team of lesser priests. The degree of poison is so exacting that the willing sacrifice might actually be entitled to a refund of other lesser talismans. Which may be collected in order to perform the ritual once again.

Or so it appears to me although many would call this experience lunch. Perhaps you see what I see and perhaps not. Perhaps just keep this in mind the next time you're a willing participant in a commercial exchange and see if the principles don't pan out in one form or another.