Post #781388 by mike and marie on Wed, Nov 8, 2017 3:15 PM

The devolution and then destruction of Tiki is nothing special.

In other words it's not something that happened just to Tiki. Everything has been changing, as it always does, and some things change for the worse. In the west, over the past half century (or, really, longer), a lot of factors or elements that would sustain Tiki or Tiki-like things that we like have been deteriorating and even outright going away. If things continue has they have been we can expect even more major, surprising changes to the world in the coming decade. Tiki was exotic, primal, tribal ... a perfect escape for a civilized, cultured and literate society. But that was then; now the west is more tribal and primal itself and Tiki just doesn't fit in. Look at the people in old photos of any good restaurants or lounges ... you can tell that they come from a different world ... a different civilization. It has ended. No architect or deep-pocketed investor can bring something like that back today. It's not a matter of constructing, collecting, or decorating. The people are the key factor and the one that's missing. The way to bring back Tiki palaces and fantastic places that are even better than anything that has come before is to change the surrounding civilization. So, how do you do that? Who knows. But do it, and you're golden.