Parsimonious Love: Blood Diamonds

In this era of darkness and fear, all we can afford to give to one another is this parsimonious love. Uncertainty ahead, danger at every corner, the average person seems more aware of the oppression he/she has been under for all this time.

 Hoping to alleviate the suffering, one human proposes to another: a shiny, glittering diamond- a diamond with blood in its past.
Time Magazine on Blood Diamonds
It wasn't enough when the Kimberly Process was enacted, when the movie 'Blood Diamonds' came out in 2006. Humans are fickle creatures, once the memory of blood and gore has faded, we are content to lament it as fate. This greedy love we afford each other has to stop. 
No more parsimonious love. 

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