Bookless Pete | Short story reaction: "The Lottery in Babylon" by Jorge Luis Borges (1940) @BooklessPete | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 minute ago.
"La lotería en Babilonia", "The Babylon Lottery"
Of the various readings of this story in English I found on youtube, I think this one is the least worst:
youtube.com/watch?v=KXEOZHsa5xU

I just realized I forgot to even discuss perhaps the greatest weird lottery story of them all: "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, but fortunately Greg @anotherbibliophilereads has that covered as part of his best 20th Century short stories series.. Check out his video: youtu.be/aHQ2UgnWTfQ?si=1rYo53ziKT_3MJTd

I mentioned DARK CITY (1998) directed by Alex Proyas and the work of Phillip K. Dick

I FORGOT to mention Franz Kafka a likely influence on all of the above and to whom Borges makes a punning reference in the story.