Post #133754 by KuKuAhu on Mon, Jan 3, 2005 4:00 PM

On 2005-01-02 14:23, Geeky Tiki wrote:

If having more people liking Tiki ruins your buzz, then perhaps your delicate little sensibilities are too tightly wound for Tiki.

Go try Urban Cowboy or Goth or something. The "I'm more Tiki" stuff is too high school.

Nailed it. Right on the money GT.

Why would anyone claim to be more tiki than all of the "band-wagon jumpers that haven't the faintest clue"?

Since when are there "Tiki high nobles"?

Give us all a break Bong.

Tiki is about escapism and having a good time. It's never been a private clique for a small group of self-conscious snobs to wear as a personal cloak of coolness. That is antithetic to the whole idea.

All are welcome.

Yeah, it might drive up the price of mugs. Yeah it might mean we have to field a bunch of questions that have been asked twenty thousand times already. So what?

The more popular it is the less likely that places like the Mai Kai will ever go under.

The less "dedicated" as you percieve them to be never hang on to any "trend" for very long anyway. So big f*cking deal.

The perception that this "tiki thing" is growing too popular is a misguided notion at best. I would argue that there is still only a very small group of people that are into this culture when you look at the masses. You just see it as huge because you hang around a website devoted to it.

Most people are not, and never will be interested in tiki. In five years it will be completely under ground again anyway.

Frankly though, your beef is not with all of the "newbies". It should be with all of those "tiki nobles" who chose to do things that raised the public's awareness.

So go bitch to them next time they invite you and the rest of the nobility over for a pow-wow.

Ahu

[ Edited by: Ku Ku Ahu on 2005-01-13 11:29 ]