Post #22266 by SlovakTiki on Fri, Feb 7, 2003 8:48 AM

On 2003-02-06 21:45, martiki6 wrote:
people like to talk to others with the same interest.

martin.

This is something that I've been pondering for awhile. I may be deluded but isn't this whole notion of being "cool" much more important today than it ever was in the era when the original Tiki cult existed? I mean, this notion, it seems to me, really came into prominence with the rise of rock music.
From my understanding people in the pre-rock era did not place nearly the importance on being cool as there is today.
Let's be honest-is it really important? Being cool is for juveniles and Hollywood movie stars. It's about an image one is supposed to project. We like Tiki, we enjoy it. That's all that counts in my opinion. Like Johnny Rotten once said"I gave up worrying about other people's opinions and impressions a long time ago."
The mainstream's ideas of being cool involve a concept in which we are to accept the brainwashing that in order to be "cool"
one has to be decadent, aggressive, competitive to the extreme, confrontational. While these things may have their own importance in my opinion we are subjected constantly to a media barrage that tries to tell us they are the most important values in life. Hogwash. I'm not in High school anymore. One of the luxuries of being an adult is that you can pretty much be and do what you want and don't have to accept so much assinine peer pressure.

[ Edited by: SlovakTiki on 2003-02-07 09:02 ]