Review: A STORY ABOUT WORKING POOR IN THE FUTURE WORLD THAT REALLY & TOTALLY CREEPS ME OUT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
I like stories that suggest what life would be like in the future.  This look into a possible future is not clean, neat and egalitarian. This is a future where the rich inherit the Earth and the poor are nothing more than wage slaves in the most true meaning of the word.  This is a world where the working poor scanner through passage ways back room duct work filled with never ending night.  The rich appear to lead lives of profound never ending luxury.  The poor have been completely disappeared in this new fictional society. Its not that poverty suffering and privation do not exist it's just well hidden.  What's so creepy is our real world is moving toward a future where the poor are becoming more and more invisable.  The world depicted in "The Lottery" is becoming the world we live in.  Homeless people are in effect invisible to most of us who live well.  The people who clean our hotel rooms, park our cars, make our fast food and deliver to our door steps are largely invisible to us.The working poor are so invisible that rich people in Washington DC can't see fit to raise the minimium wage or in other ways help the poor.  The only way one rises to the level of valued person in this society is by winning The Lottery.  Just as in our world if one wins the Lottery for a period of time their worries disappear.  For a moment lottery winnings let a poor family live like the truly rich.  However like a drug the lottery winnings are all to soon gone and the family is poor again like a Cinderella story gone wrong.The Lottery is a very good book and the spooky paralells between the future it suggests and the reality of today just creeps me out.  We have given up fighting the War On Poverty now the Great Society exists only for the haves.  The have nots live in obscurity a mindless bland world a human cog that is treated as such in every way.  It is all this that makes the Lottery a first rate short story well worth its price.  Five star rating and it was earned.