Post #805055 by Atomic Tiki Punk on Sun, Aug 14, 2022 4:32 AM

God knows I have had some serious and at times heated back and forth with a few folks here on this very subject, Like I have said many times before, Tiki is a historically Mid Century, defined aesthetic, it is quantifiable in the many influences that define it and as such any reinterpretation changes it to something else, it no longer recreates a sense of time and place from what it is based on, therefore it is possible to define what is Tiki and what is not, so many people today (not just the young folks) cannot take any sort of criticism and react to it as some sort of personal attack, it is because critical thinking has mostly become extinct, everything is based on feelings now, facts don't matter any more, the result is an inane understanding of free speech, becoming group-think censorship and social banishment to those whom don't agree, that is what they did to Sven, as always it has to be said, that no one is telling anyone what they can or can't do, mashup whatever you damn well please, but at the end of the day your Gothic, Monster, Star Wars, Disney, Scary Clown, Pirate Sex Bar is not a Tiki Bar just because you add Tiki Mugs and a few fish floats, why you ask? because it never existed in that specific time and place that we now call Tiki, it doesn't mean it isn't a cool place to chill and imbibe, it means it is a disparate hodgepodge of all your likes and interests mashed together in a place to get drunk in, now if you don't mind, I am going to my Bettie Page, Synthesizer, Motor Cycle, Vintage Hat, 50s SciFi Toy Bar for a Old Fashioned, Laters!