Powerball Lottery. The Powerball lottery was just won with a $700,000,000+ jackpot. It occurred to me this lotto gives many millions of people something unavailable centuries ago. Given is a measure of hope for wealth and position far beyond any expectation but more important, any possibility. Of course, the measure is faux, false, incorrect, wrong, mistaken, misleading, faulty, inaccurate, invalid, improper, unfounded, erroneous, and downright effectively impossible. Yet, for these same millions, it gives a few minutes of hope, the small flicker of light within a dark life without much chance of escape. Is the Lotto wrong? Or is it a tool used by those in power to quiet the distant drum of revolution? Possibly not. Maybe it’s a tool merely for those in power to make money and also to quiet the resonance of grumble? Possibly so. BTW, I bought a ticket for the last drawing. Though I have enough for comfort, still I did see that flicker of light, feel that brief hope, and
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