[€uroMeinke]

Forget DNA teesting, genetics, and your grandparents - what's your intellectual ancestry? What events, movements, and cultures of the past have shaped the way you think? Is it Platonic dialogues? The civil war? Watergate? the outfits of Jackie O?

I claim the caberet culture of Weimar Germany and the expat cafe culture of pre-war Paris. Throw in some 19th century continental romantic idealism and a huge slab ur-existentialst Nietzsche. Add a little post-partition era India/Pakistan for flavor and just a dash of Tao and Buddha. I also claim the expressionists, dadaists, and a few of the surreal. These are my true intellectual progenitors.