Post #805389 by telescopes on Tue, Sep 6, 2022 6:11 PM

Let me say this a different way.

If I am asked to present the "truth" of a culture that feels it has been appropriated, then I have an obligation to present the nasty mean stuff as well as all of the touch feely stuff.

No one's culture will appreciate the "truth" of everything being told, especially if food and drinks are the point of the business. It kind of spoils the atmosphere.

Humans survive, not because they are kind and sing songs to flowers and practice balance with the earth - we survived because we were the baddest of the bad.

No, that is not where I want to see our civilization aspire, but Tiki is escapism from reality. That escapism includes ignoring for a moment that the headhunter mug really comes from people who did shrink heads or that the velvet painting of a semi nude woman who seems happy is only happy because she isn't thinking about her husband and sons who were murdered in the last tribal raid and that she was sold off to serve some smelly man and his family.

You see where I am going there? Is truth always the point?