A friend displays her "pre-engagement" ring at our Bicentennial Halloween party. I'm sorry to see this "jewelers' fabrication" is still popular. #materialworld #consumer #consumerism #heartyconsumerism #americanconsumerism #jewelry #jewels #massconsumerism #capitalism

As I completely reject the core #GDPgrowth goal and #massconsumerism most societies embrace have I been #radicalised (made a radical)? Or is the extreme the mainstream, as I would assert, because it is accelerating us towards the cliff edge of climate and ecological and thus social catastrophe?