经历了令人不安的经济萧条时期、深受二战及冷战思维的影响,年轻的“垮掉”一代曾经失望过,但他们没有丧失信念,他们追求自我、不入主流,用他们所能寻求到的方式去摆脱世俗观念的束缚,表现和释放被压抑的自我。他们的行为方式不一定高尚,甚至有些颠狂,但却有精神价值,它提醒人们,现代社会的问题是精神问题。 Having experienced the troubling economic depression, deeply influenced by the thinking of World War II and the Cold War, the young Beat generation had been disappointed. However, they did not lose their faith. They sought for themselves and went out of the mainstream and used what they could find The way to get rid of the shackles of secular ideas, performance and release of pent-up self. Their mode of conduct is not necessarily noble, even some insanity, but there is spiritual value, it reminds people that the problem of modern society is a spiritual problem.