"What is Tiki?" - How Do YOU Respond? - General Tiki

T telescopes Tiki Socialite Palm Springs Joined: May 06, 2007 Posts: 619	T telescopes Posted posted on Wed, Jun 27, 2007 6:52 PM I think tiki is a longing, a desire to be separated from the mundane clatter that is the modern world and to be someone who is at once at odds with everything the western world values while at the same time someone who is found to be embracing a thought that is skewed from something Henry David Thoreau once said which is, "Most men live lives of quiet desperation." For the man or woman who embraces Tiki, it isn't desperation that we embrace, but it is "a quiet life of effortless simplicity". The Polynesians, at least from the point of view of our American Pop psyche, exemplified this in all of its glory. I suppose other culture did so as well, but for the tikiphile, this one comes with alcohol, food, art, traditions, and cool looking mugs and places to meet. And of course, half-naked women who want to bring nothing but pleasure to your boorish, flabby existance. I suppose tiki is a statement of some sort. I wouldn't make too much of it. I think Gauguin best expressed the sentiments of tiki through his paintings. For me, at least from my own humble point of view, is the true founding father of this expression referred to as Tiki. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. [ Edited by: telescopes 2007-06-27 18:54 ]

I think tiki is a longing, a desire to be separated from the mundane clatter that is the modern world and to be someone who is at once at odds with everything the western world values while at the same time someone who is found to be embracing a thought that is skewed from something Henry David Thoreau once said which is, "Most men live lives of quiet desperation." For the man or woman who embraces Tiki, it isn't desperation that we embrace, but it is "a quiet life of effortless simplicity".

The Polynesians, at least from the point of view of our American Pop psyche, exemplified this in all of its glory. I suppose other culture did so as well, but for the tikiphile, this one comes with alcohol, food, art, traditions, and cool looking mugs and places to meet. And of course, half-naked women who want to bring nothing but pleasure to your boorish, flabby existance.

I suppose tiki is a statement of some sort. I wouldn't make too much of it. I think Gauguin best expressed the sentiments of tiki through his paintings. For me, at least from my own humble point of view, is the true founding father of this expression referred to as Tiki.

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

[ Edited by: telescopes 2007-06-27 18:54 ]

Post #315358 by telescopes on Wed, Jun 27, 2007 6:52 PM