Post #82932 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 12:13 AM

How about this:

The human need for a paradise on earth is eternal since Adam and Eve were cast out of it.
Upon the discovery of the Polynesian islands in the 1800s, people believed they had found this lost haven.
Thus Polynesia became the equivalent of Paradise, the antidode to all the ailments of civilized man.
This need was so strong that a culture of it's own, apart from the realities of a people and a place, took hold in the common mind. We now call this Tiki culture.

Even though in this day and age it has been proven that no human culture without conflict and strife exists, Tiki culture recognizes and embellishes the human need for the ideal of an earthly paradise, playfully re-enacting the concept. Tikiphiles ignore the jaded rational facts of today's over-informed world and fulfill their emotional needs by indulging in yesterday's naivitee.

All the while we are fully conscious off course that we are just playing a game...right?