If we believe in the meritocracy, it is odd we also believe in the lottery.
We believe in hope and redemption, despite circumstance or sin, retaining space for a lottery that rewards idiocy and illogic, despite simultaneously virtuizing (preaching) hard work.
We systemically maintain and fund luck structures: the logic is to enhance illogical outlets as a balance for excessive efficiency and reason.
Paradoxically, we also embrace the ideology of scientific progress while upholding the right to make irrational (stupid) choices, and even exploit that as giddy freedom that science and technology should support.
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