Recycling With a Vengeance

I think it is an interesting idea to connect recycling with our visceral feelings, and performative aspects of the event must be enjoyable. But, why do they need to throw bottles aiming at other people? Of course it has the effect of catharsis by doing something you would never do in your everyday life, and that is the function of feasts and rituals in many cultures, and there are some festivals in which people can throw something at other people such as Holi and Tomatina. And, in our contemporary society, can pigments and tomatoes be replaced with beer bottles if targets are physically protected by bullet-proof glasses? Yes, I make my work out of what I hate. Yes, I do. Is it the same? And yes, it is “recycling with a vengeance” which is much healthier than throwing a bottle at someone without any protection for real revenge. Is this a happy straw man strategy, or I fell into a straw man argument?

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