If this helps illuminate, freshman year of college some friends and I started an informal Dada society from our dorm. The real motivation was because it was amu

If this helps illuminate, freshman year of college some friends and I started an informal Dada society from our dorm. The real motivation was because it was amusing, and was tied in with other amusing post modern genres like Theater of the Absurd, or post modern authors like David Ives and Italo Calvino (I guess in our minds it was all sort of on the same spectrum of "amusing post modern works"). We got together and read, and then sat around and had very random, improvised conversations with unusual moments of repetition, usually while drinking Sangria or something random like that. It was definitely part of the fun/ random stuff you do in college, but the other half was also a belief that there was this new world of post modern interpretations, philosophy, literature that we had almost no exposure to before in high school, so it had its "seeing the Matrix" moments. I think it's a relic of the interwar years and that it would have resonated more back then, almost 100 years ago. Now I'm chalking it up to just an interesting, amusing, exploratory phase you go through if you study philosophy and literature.