#TheLottery

i just had a realization about how infinitely fucked up the lottery really is and i'm never getting over this i fear.

what do you mean the only way to improve your social standing in this culture is by getting more money, except wages are suppressed so there's no upward mobility through hard work and classes are segregated so there's no upward mobility through marriage. but there's a solution: you can buy a ticket for a rare chance at a one-time payment that could lift you to new social heights, that could free you from the shackles of debt, could get you out of the place you have to run from, could feed your starving children, could heal you broken body, could open up countless doors. all you have to do is keep spending what little money you have to buy the ticket.

it sounds like something out of a black mirror episode but no it's real and it's the current social system in the united states.

Waywords StudioWaywordsStudio
2025-04-02

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: 𝑶𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 & 𝑰𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓" -

Why some of those shocking stories just . . . stay with us.

wp.me/pci426-8uc

Andrew ShieldsAndrewShields@mas.to
2024-11-13
Andrew ShieldsAndrewShields@mas.to
2024-06-28

I forgot to repost this yesterday on the day that Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” takes place.

#ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #ShortStory #Literature

andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20

Mother Suspiria :autism:stina_marie@horrorhub.club
2024-06-26

Today, in 1948, The New Yorker published a short story:

#ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #horror @bookstodon @horrorbooks

The first page of the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
2024-06-26

"Just published my latest short story in The New Yorker... can't believe the reactions it's getting! 😱 #TheLottery #Controversy" - Shirley Jackson

Jun 26, 1948 - Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_

Simon and/or Garfunkeltheonlysimonandorgarfunkel@mas.to
2024-03-26

Current consumption of media…

#Audiobook : Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

#Book: 100 years of the best American short stories - Kindle

I was reading 1984 : The graphic novel and The Lottery & other stories by Shirley Jackson but I had to return them to the library.

#Podcast: OffMenu - always

#Album: Fleetwood Mac’s Kiln House on vinyl.

#media #thelottery #julesverne #shortstories #offmenu #fleetwoodmac #vinyl

I Voted for McGoverngoatrodeo@mstdn.social
2024-02-17

What if the core, essential, actual cause of global warming and climate change was our crossing the 2 billion population mark some years back? Cuz that's it I'm pretty sure
#ThomasMalthus
#theLottery

Andrew ShieldsAndrewShields@mas.to
2023-12-04

“To take the world back into caves”: A metaphor from a fossil-fuel executive and from Old Man Warner in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. #111Words #SultanAlJaber #COP28 #ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #LivingInCaves andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20

Andrew ShieldsAndrewShields@mas.to
2023-11-22

The politics of needs and the politics of stories in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948). #111Words #ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #Politics #Needs #Stories andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20

jackhutton 🇺🇸jackhutton@mstdn.social
2023-06-29

75 Years Ago, ‘The Lottery’ Went Viral. There’s a Reason We’re Still Talking About It. By Ruth Franklin
Ms. Franklin is the author of a biography of the writer Shirley Jackson.
#nytimes #shirleyjackson #thelottery #bookstodon
nytimes.com/2023/06/26/opinion

2023-06-28

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