Yeah, in Obamaland.
Except it is here. We have already made both the unborn and the old and infirm subhuman underclasses who may be sacrificec for for the convenience of society at large.
While I agree with the writer that things are certainly going to get worse, he writes as though that Rubicon has yet to be crossed.
The huge response to this book/film shows that most people have no knowledge of many other far better sci fi stories. P.K. Dick’s stories reached huge popularity in movies only after he was dead.
Which of our rights are not now at the mercy of the state?
What is the clear line that federal power cannot cross?
Does the Constitutional Republic even exist anymore?
I read the Hunger Games series along with my children and discussed its underlying meaning in depth.
I read THE LOTTERY many years go and still remember it.
As for the Hunger Games....
Already been done a little differently.
THE 10th VICTIM (1965)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059095/
I could've sworn that was Chuck Norris...
That person got to live the high life for one night, and everything they wanted was available to them. And then the night ended with a lethal injection. Popular control.
er... “population control”, obviously.
I intend to read the books, if only to educate myself enough to talk about them with my kids and their friends.
When the "Law Makers" and "Law Enforcers" become the biggest "Law Breakers", immune to and unencumbered by the penalties and restrictions of their own rules, THE RULE OF LAW CEASES to have MEANING and we enter the realm of the LAWLESS!
Welcome to the communistic dictatorship of Zero! The next few months will get very interesting indeed...
When people here post as if Islam is the only barbaric religion, they are mistaken. It’s only because they are used to Christianity that they think many or most religions are benign. History show that if your culture’s religion is not Christianity (or Judaism, since it comes from the same root), human sacrifice and all sorts of barbarities are liable to be practiced.
We have the system already it's just that like everything else in this society, both the lottery tickets and the final sacrifice are in large part media constructed fantasy.
Psychologically our lottery participants enjoy the same range of emotions and sense of participation and those who operate the system are free to be creative when devising various forms of execution that don't in any way end the utility of the lottery winner. First build up a media or sports personality participants can live vicariously through during their fattening up phase, then reward the participants with an "execution" that for many is even worse than death, the fall from celebrity status. Players even get to enjoy the private little hells the fallen go to after their "execution" and occasionally see one of the fallen return from the hell of dull normal to celebrity status.
True, some who aren't cut out for the role of executed winner end up killing themselves the way Whitney Houston did, but the majority of those chosen provide every bit as much entertainment value as they wallow in their personal hell as they did when they were being fattened up on magazine covers at every grocery checkout in the country.
Eventually, something will lead to a SWAT team having to remove one of the chosen ones from of their cherished home or favorite whore house and the ratings will be so terrific that we'll finally turn the corner and have actual fights to the death become an option for the operators to weave into stories from time to time. I'm sure that the majority of those who now own an under performing "property" they've invested heavily in know what great ratings every phase of the OJ series of events generated so how long can it be until someone figures out how to recoup their investment with a new approach?
Human sacrifice is the default religion of humanity.
Judiasm and then Christianity over turned it at least in the west.
All post Christian/Jewish societies return to it .