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E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Sun, Jun 3, 2018 7:53 AM On 2018-06-02 16:55, santa wrote: It’s unpopular to acknowledge tiki culture is highly materialistic and revolves around buying and selling. But did it ever have the pretense of not being materialistic? I'm reminded of a guy I worked with whose band was starting to get popular, and he was starting to get e-mails about how they "sold out." His reply was just "dude, we never were counter-culture rebels. We always wanted to be famous rock stars!" This is a good complaint for cultures like Steampunk, that had all the pretense of being counter-culture rebels, but whose entire culture was based around costumes and materialism.

On 2018-06-02 16:55, santa wrote:
It’s unpopular to acknowledge tiki culture is highly materialistic and revolves around buying and selling.

But did it ever have the pretense of not being materialistic? I'm reminded of a guy I worked with whose band was starting to get popular, and he was starting to get e-mails about how they "sold out." His reply was just "dude, we never were counter-culture rebels. We always wanted to be famous rock stars!"

This is a good complaint for cultures like Steampunk, that had all the pretense of being counter-culture rebels, but whose entire culture was based around costumes and materialism.

Post #787417 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Sun, Jun 3, 2018 7:53 AM