Post #626934 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 7:54 AM

The role of Tiki Central (in my mind) is not to critique and bring down the few remaining Tiki palaces, but to preserve and appreciate them FOR WHAT THEY ARE. Tiki Central is not a restaurant criticism site, there are enough other ones like Yelp out there already in this "Everyone's a critic" world. I view Tiki Central as a cultural institution that is there to educate and enlighten the world on the unique artistic and creative concepts of the Tiki Lounge (yes, like my books did). It was THIS very cultural achievement that was not appreciated and dismissed in Tiki's heyday, and that almost disappeared completely without ever having been recognized as something unique.

Sometimes it seems that nowadays Tiki is taken as a given, as if it is always been there, something that can be compared to everything else out there and dealt with like that. To me it is a frail, multilayered art construct, a house of cards that if not treated with utmost sensitivity and understanding may topple at a careless move or word.

I simply do not understand the sense of entitlement that would make someone go onto a culture's main site, in the main forum, and open a thread with a negative header that simply by putting it in words will do anything else but help a business survive in these hard economic times.