... by saying, "the irresponsible people in the world are the generals and politicians who test nuclear bombs; the antisocial, violent, and childish people running the government- (Snyder, Place in Space) Snyder and the Beat Generation spent much time thinking and discussing the nature of the human individual. In Snyder's essay "Notes on the Beat Generation-, he links the beats to Occidentals in Zen Buddhism. The Occidentals practiced existentialism ... morals (Snyder, Place in Space)-. Snyder especially liked the Confucian focus on family and the Buddhists with their "return-to-the-world-to...

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