evolution_epidemic

blood diamonds

i am apparently a movie buff because i always seem to have a commentary on the latest. anyway blood diamond was good. it may have been good because the one person i heard rate it said it sucked so i had low expectations. real good movie though- if you walk in with no expectancies. so it explodes the whole situation that happend in the late nineties with diamonds being smuggled to england and america. i think its interesting that they keep diamonds in a vault because they want the demand to be high/supply low so they can charge so much for them. i knew that, but i didnt realize what was happening in africa due to this. the government is at war with their own people who are supplied with ak-47's through the people that receive the smuggled diamonds (england, us, etc). and currently india is getting in on it and undercutting our prices.

personally i think if diamonds were cheap then they wouldn't symbolize an engagement ring or "commitment". they need to be expensive or they're not special. but after seeing a glimpse of what the natives go through and reading up a bit, listening to my dad's stories from the business, i see the core of a diamond- its birth- does not honor commitment and love and all that. it is not as it seems, in clarity and purity. it is tainted from bloodshed and its core represents fear death and war.

posted by Tiffany @ 6:17 PM