Sofia Wylie & Madison Thompson To Topline Comedic Thriller ‘The Lottery’; Genevieve Hannelius, Noa Fisher, Trew Mullen & Austin North Also Set
#Casting #AustinNorth #GenevieveHannelius #LeoMilano #MadisonThompson #NoaFisher #SofiaWylie #TheLottery #TrewMullen

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Sofia Wylie & Madison Thompson To Topline Comedic Thriller ‘The Lottery’; Genevieve Hannelius, Noa Fisher, Trew Mullen & Austin North Also Set

'The Lottery' has locked in a cast led by Sofia Wylie and Madison Thompson. Genevieve Hannelius, Noa Fisher, Trew Mullen and Austin North also star.

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Abandoning capitalism and Shirley Jackson’s “lottery" as regression to primitive conditions

On Substack, Joe Wrote recently discussed the rhetoric of defenders of capitalism: "Whether consciously or subconsciously, many pro-capital...

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.

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

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

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#plottwist #shockending #surpriseending #turnaround #irony #phenomenology #reading #books #poems #thelottery #thestar #giftofthemagi #coffeebreak #thestoryofanhour #archaictorsoofapollo

The trolley problem, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the television series “The Good Place”, and allegory and literature as thought experiments

This morning, on my way to teaching a session on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1948), I passed a classroom where I spotted a slide from a...

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

#ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #ShortStory #Literature

https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-day-when-shirley-jacksons-lottery.html

The day when Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” takes place

Today is the day when Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" (1948) takes place, with its bucolic opening sentence: "The morning of Jun...

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

#ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #horror @bookstodon @horrorbooks

"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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson

Shirley Jackson - Wikipedia

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

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