I don't think it matters what my background is. It would take a competent psychologist and philosopher to make anything of it anyway. My influences, well, they are another matter!  I was always influenced by almost everyone who was discredited by our modern mindless political society. It seems nothing is to my taste. I have always felt that the best elements in all past and present civilizations, were scorned by a manipulated mob and that it was easy for that mob to be taken in by just about anything that gave it a feeling of power and self assertion. I love Jesus as every modern atheist must, for he saw deeper than most what can only be properly tried out by intelligent minds and competent organizations. I believe he was the son of god if god is within us, which also makes him the son of man. But there have been many since him with a better understanding of how to achieve a world worth living in for all.  I like the way Marx stood Hegel on his head and the way Nietzsche condemned priestcraft. Orthodoxy is always, at best, limited.

I was born. Quite an achievement. I was awarded with a keen intelligence.