“What is this tree called?”
“No clue. I’m lost in the art.”
“Check the internet quickly, and build a story around its significance and benefits to the human race.”
“You have no interest in the chiselled parts? I think this is extraordinary. We must meet the artist.”
“The artist needs to go underground. This will soon become a place of worship, and we will circulate stories about the Lord making an appearance to bless the human race. I can see currency notes falling around the tree.”
“I’m yet to meet God, but I’ll never see a monster greater than you.”
(100 words)
Reena Saxena 
Great take on the prompt. Some people are so cynical as to want to exploit everything and everyone
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Cynical or power hungry? Thanks!
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This is unfortunately very true often of many in society! Very well-observed & captured.
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Thank you, Lisa!
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Where there are people willing to be exploited, someone will always find a fine. Excellent take on the prompt.
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Thanks, Subroto! Noam Chomsky has a quote for this -“For the powerful, crimes are always committed by others”.
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Excellent take. Very well written.
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Thank you, Indira!
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Twisted dark, opportunistic mindsets! Great spin on the prompt.
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Thank you, Shweta!
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You’re very welcome. 😄
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Sad but a fact of organised religion, in fact any religion as far as I’m concerned, a great piece about selfishness and greed
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You are right in saying ‘any religion’. So-called gods are created outside places of worship too – in corporates, politics, entertainment and anybody who questions authority is made to feel guilty.
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I got over the guilt a while back!!
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Exploitation at its most cruel, well done 🙂
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Thank you, Kristian!
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Perhaps he thought it was a money tree – commercialisation of any commodity, sometimes art is just art for art’s sake.
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Nothing escapes commercialization in the present day and age.
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A sad tale of corruption and greed. Well-written.
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Thank you, Brenda!
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It reminded me of totems. Even those have become commercialized. Still an artist has to eat and the way things are structured everyone makes money with whatever is left over going to the one who created it in the first place.
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You described the process so accurately.
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The one seems focussed in the here and now, while the other schemes and talks about potential.
Art is about slowing down, and really seeing things.
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One needs to watch closely to understand the magnitude of effort at times. Like I have seen dancers drop their jaws on watching another’s superlative performance. They know what it takes.
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Greed is the worst monster.
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You are so right.
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If the tree had a human voice, I think that it would cry.
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I have read about that.
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There will always be monsters to take advantage of people’s faith.
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Gullibility is the saddest part.
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Cool take. I like “lost in the art.”
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Thanks, Hardy!
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So that’s how these things start!
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Most of the time ….
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An opportunist, indeed. Well done, Reena.
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Thank you, Linda!
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I wonder what the artist will make of the plan. Interesting take Reena
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Good take. Commercialism is everywhere, but if it puts food on the artist’s table, maybe that’s not an entirely bad thing.
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It is good, as long as the artist earns, not an external manipulator.
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That’s what I meant. Sometimes there’s a blurry line between effective management and ruthless exploitation.
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Monster or entrepreneur. Sometimes it is very hard to spot the difference. Great take.
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Most of the time 😊 yes. Monster bcoz he wants to send the artist underground. Thanks!
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Really unusual tree. Liked your take on it.
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These things can be easily done on a banana tree. But this must have been a challenge.
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Yes, and carving in a manner as not to harm the 🌲 tree!
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That is paramount! It should pain though. Trees are live creatures.
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I think there’s going to be a moral to many of the stories today. Terrific take on the prompt.
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Thank you, Sandra! But the carving is indeed beautiful!
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Where there’s a will there’s a beneficiary
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And there is a Donald 🙂
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