This useless days, a symbol of consumerism: Please tell me you hate it! OK, it's true that I'm single so I could dislike him for other reasons, but I think there are so many couples believe that Valentine's Day is a crap crazy (citation fantozziana).
Starting from the speech Valentine gifts and money, the other night I attended a very interesting documentary: The price of love. There was talk principalemtne market of flowers and diamonds.
FLOWERS: The flowers of the American market is supplied mainly by imports from Colombia, thousands of greenhouses and fields here are engaged in the production of roses (and cocaine), and this could be postitva situation for Colombians, unfortunately, known only as the largest exporter of drugs. BUT there is no rose without thorns: for these poor people who work within these companies have no right, no support, and most are subject to highly dangerous pesticides, which over the years cause cancer, leukemia and other diseases, fatal course. But business calls, especially on Valentine's Day Americans spend billions of dollars in flowers and then the Colombians die for 30 cents on the dollar per hour.
DIAMONDS: we go to another market. Billions and billions of dollars. War and death. Here is the summary. It starts from 1991, with the civil war that devastated Sierra Leone, country rich in diamond mines. The rebels of the RUF decided one fine morning to take possession of areas with a high rate of subsoil diamonds (their excuse was to liberate the people from a corrupt government) and overthrow the government, so enter the capital Freetown and shoot anything that moves . This war has caused 200,000 civilian deaths, the children were used as soldiers and thousands of people have been enslaved for the lucrative business of diamond mining in the region of Kono. Obviously, the trade in diamonds during the civil war was forbidden, but the girls still wanted a western ring gleaming on his finger, and the magnates of the precious stones have found ways to continue to sell diamonds from Sierra Leone, the so-called bloody diamonds: Liberian diamonds were sold as (powerful neighbor that supported the RUF). After eight years of civil war, the situation is certainly not improved to the working poor sift the bed of a river in search of a diamond, exploited and underpaid. (I recommend the movie Bloody Diamond)
Love, however, has nothing to do, so for a minute I want to believe in the feelings and leave the cynicism of you would not want a kiss like that??
Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville, 1950 Robert Doisneau 
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