Analysing of The Lottery of its relevance to the modern society

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The Lottery, in many ways is relevant to our society today. In my post, I will briefly discuss about how this story is relevant to our modern society and does our modern society display the themes in The Lottery.
Frist of all,the hyprocrisy of our modern society can be clearly reflected through The Lottery, in which violence is accepted until it becomes personal. In the passage, Tessie Hutchinson had not complained at the previous lotteries, yet she complains when it is she who is going to be killed.
This is found in our modern society too. Many companies are going green, which is a new trend, yet the CEO drives a car that consumes a lot of petrol - way beyond the environmentally friendly benchmark. Macdonald's claims itself to be environmentally friendly, yet it clears hundreds of hectares of forest, destroying thousands of animals' habitats, just to build chicken farms killed to produce chicken nuggets for Americans to consume.
Secondly, The Lottery shows the gradual neglection and elimination of old traditions and rituals. Many people in the story and I feel that the lottery ritual is pointless. This seem to be the general trend in the modern society - people being more practical and disliking ancient rituals, which are based on superstitions and replacing them with new ones that are more practical. For example, Chinese New Year, I feel, is becoming colder every year and it is slowly becoming something that has lost its meaning, that people do just for the sake of quickly finishing it and going back to their lives.