Sure, I get that. I was referring simply to the purges of the Dasati, (which is a great concept by the way) not their whole society. I liked the way it all fit together with their religion and His Darkness. I guess I would have to revisit The Lottery to compare it.
Like the Mafia in the old days, rules, order and honor (twisted though as some would say). I still say if they had stuck with the core businesses, the feds might never have gotten to them. But with the drug business...too much heat. On May 25, 2013 8:30 PM, "Raymond Feist/New ATT" <[email protected]> wrote: > Not even close, IMHO. > > If anything it's got more in common with Shirley Jackson's The Lottery > than anything else that springs to mind. > > Keep in mind, for all their apparent mayhem, the Dasati had a very > strictly organized social system with hard and fast rules. > > Best, R.E.F. > > On May 25, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Spoiler space........ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone seen the previews for the movie The Purge coming out soon? > Is it just me or, besides being a great plot concept, is it a fairly > blatant ripoff of the Dasati worlds and the purges or what? > > > > -- > > Nick A > > > > "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a > single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 > > > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical > Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 > > > > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the > streets after them." Bill Vaughan > > > > "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." > Plato > > > >
