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
