raffle-of-evil

is the everyday game we feel ourselves playing whereby the winner gets sick or struck by lightning.

Everyday life thus becomes an involuntary lottery of misfortune. The probablility of a 'winner' here is probably no highter than in the weekly lottery, but it has become almost impossible not to take part in this raffle of evils, where the 'winner' gets sick and may even die as a result of it. Politicians such as the British ex-prime minister John Major, who complained aobut the 'hysteria' of consumers in reaction to the debate over BSE in Europe and the resulting collapse in the beef market, while, at the same time, encouriaging peole to take part in the national lottery, rendered a particular service to the creibility of politics' (Beck beyond risk 217).

raffle of evil, n.Definitions

raffle of evil