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[–] [email protected] 106 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Oh that fucking thing.

Edit: wait so what exactly is the point of this?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's been near 15 years since I read it, but it's kind of a cautionary tale about tradition, superstition, and how easily humans succumb to their base impulses and can commit insane violence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Seems all too pertinent these days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The qualifier base is exactly right. Like we use base as a pejorative, but it is what we are. That is our base state.

You know what itd take to drop us back to this level? I would say about a week without electricity. If you said to any given group of what, 50 people. Pick numbers out of a hat. The person with the dot dies, but the electricity comes back on. That would be enough.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Ohhh. I remember now. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It's supposed to make you feel very weird because it is innate tribal behaviour that is not very far from the surface. Individual vs group, traditions, rituals, sacrifice, and the perverse gratitude that you are the survivor etc.

Read it then go read Facebook for a bit...you start to see people for what they are. Panicky, social, tribal animals.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Came here to say this. Now I have to dig even deeper into my high school trauma to find something else, thanks. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Was gonna say this. Fucked me up for a bit after I read it.