I don’t think the WWII generation, my parents, had the luxury of doing something rebellious. They grew up in the Depression, and then went to war. Those who survived the war hurried to get married, get jobs, homes, and raise families.
They created the affluent society that permitted all the craziness.
We had an ‘affluent’ time before that - it contributed to the Roaring Twenties, which had its own ‘craziness’.
Not all of them did that. Quite a few found they no longer fit in “proper” society. And many of them went out and functionally invented the outlaw motorcycle club, they made a society they could fit in. Something America has a rather long tradition of. Explorers, prospectors, cowboys. All people who looked at regular society and said “nope, that’s not for me”.