"The Lottery"

In the story "The Lottery", I feel the people seemed to be stuck in a time warp. They were doing the same thing day after day. They weren't doing anything to change with the times even down to not getting a new lottery box. One of the quotes stated "Every year, after the lottery, Mr. Summers begin talking again about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything's being done" (406). They seemed to be like sheep going to the slaughter house. I think it's hard to believe that not one of the town's people would have stood up and said "This is absurd and not morally right". The people that made the lottery were no longer there. They had the power to stop this ridiculous lottery, and yet no one did. Everyone seemed to be so neighborly and friendly towards one another, but when it came to the lottery, they were ready to cast their stone.