What's Your Intelectual Ancestry

€uroMeinke · 06-15-2005, 03:30 PM

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.

06-15-2005, 03:30 PM	#1
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	What's Your Intelectual Ancestry 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. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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