Review: Depends Upon From Which Side of the Tree You Hail.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2012
Krepple is replacing his father as head of council for the Triplifers, a group of bugs that live on one side of the Krepilhof tree where leaves grow with three points.This latter point is the root of the great debate between the Triplifers and Quadrigons, one believes their tree has three, the other four, pointed leaves. It's established that the party in power makes the rules and has right to `the shears' so that they can groom their side of the tree. The side without power is left to the congestion of their leaves.Ultimately the Flidderbugs are confined to their sides and never experience the other side. They dogmatically hold that to whatever tribe they belong is to whatever side of the leaf debate they adhere.What happens when, experientially, they are made to realize that their tree has both types of leaves? And because of the lack of grooming they'll be lucky to have a tree at all unless they solve their petty differences.Full of satire, this story easily translates to how blind we as people can be when we either refuse to or simply can't see the other side. While rooted in politics it's easily applicable to many of our worlds other multi-faceted dilemmas.