That period was a symbol of the marginalization of the individual in modern society, a gesture of futility, a brilliant expression of the angst of the zeitgeist, the very apotheosis of the existential crisis that is consuming the soul of the laborers adrift in a post-consumer
weltschmerz, a clarion call for revolution against the smothering and oppressive machinery of corporate oppression.
Or something like that. I don't know what it means either.