The Blue Box is the Opiate of the Masses - Recycling

In 1843 Karl Marx wrote:  Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Marx's point is well taken.  And as a religious person, it does not seem to me that he is advocating an end to what ‘religion' represents to my ‘religious' role models: Contemplation, Compassion and the will of the individual/'religious'community to always choose toward Social Justice.

And so for the past year I have wanted to design a T-Shirt:  The Blue Box is the Opiate of the Masses.

And I am not advocating an end to Respect for Our Mother Earth, nor an end to Recycling.

But as we stuff our blue boxes with newspaper and wine bottles we are ritualizing our state as oppressed creatures increasingly fragile on our pillaged planet home. The Blue Box is the sigh of the oppressed creature.  Who will call us to pull our heads up out of our Blue Boxes and confront our global economic and ecologic oppressors?

What good is a confessional box if the priest is cavorting with or cowtowing to landed gentry?

What good is a Blue Box if National Governments are genuflecting to Transnational Corporations?

The Worlds Largest Corporations:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/18/biz_07forbes2000_The-Global-2000_Rank.html

The Response - The Ritual of the Masses  - (To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion/blue-box is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion/blue-box is the halo):

Blue Box Recycling