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Right, and letting everybody see some lucky person win once in a while sort of perpetuates the delusion that it could be you, the guy standing on the sidelines.
by incadenza 9y ago
Right, and letting everybody see some lucky person win once in a while sort of perpetuates the delusion that it could be you, the guy standing on the sidelines.
Ultimately, it's cheaper for whoever owns the tent to let one person win every once in a while then to just let everybody lose.
I may be stretching the analogy but yeah.
- hitekker 9y agoI think this analogy has legs; for example, what of the town surrounding the carnival? Does the carnival hold lotteries enthralling the adult villagers who otherwise turn their nose at throwing darts? If nothing else, bread-and-circuses-made-literal is useful for storytelling.