Post #235050 by aquarj on Wed, May 31, 2006 2:18 PM

I took the subject question at surface value, not as a guilt trip. "Promoting" sounds odd to me too, but I don't have a problem with the question, and in fact some of the answers in here were interesting.

As soon as someone starts talking about "established caretakers of the flame" and all that, I can't believe we're still talking about tikis! Likewise with saying that the subject question bears extreme scrutiny. Huh? I don't think it bears extreme anything.

I haven't done much that could be considered promoting tiki other than some outdated webpages and telling some friends about stuff I dig once in a while. But I sure do appreciate the efforts of people like Otto, Sven, Hanford, JT, Duke, Humu, Martiki, Kiliki, and on and on! Maybe in their cases, promoting tiki is more of a byproduct than a primary motivation, whereas the subject question sort of makes promoting sound like the end goal. It also feels a little like too much talking about doing something rather than just doing it, and all that talk is kind of a buzzkill in any escapist pastime. But still, for someone who has this kind of question, I think of TC as just the place to take it, so I don't get the brouhaha, and indignation even.

-Randy