Post #59997 by TikiGoddess on Fri, Nov 14, 2003 2:37 PM

There is another problem with this scenario. In order to combat the Buffet style "tiki" popularity, tiki as we know and love it (pure tiki, the 50s polynesian pop variety) would have to go majorly mainstream. Everyone (inc. mullet heads, soccer moms in giant SUVs who are on the phone and the idiots I work with at my job) would have to know tiki and accept it. Only then would the Buffet version be understood as faux. But most of us would cry if tiki were accepted and corrupted by the mainstream types many of us dislike. Although I cringe at the Buffet style tiki corruption, I fear the mainstream corruption more.
Although if tiki hadnt been mainstream a long time ago none of us would be into it today or out finding moai at yard sales etc. Its like a double edged sword.