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Materialism is the importance a person attaches to acquiring and consuming material goods . The use of the term materialistic to describe a person ' s personality or a society tends to have a negative or critical connotation . Also called acquisitiveness , it is often associated with a value system which regards social status as being determined by affluence ( see conspicuous consumption ), as well as the belief that possessions can provide happiness . ___MASK23___ can be considered a competing orientation to materialism . The ___MASK69___ is a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post - World War II era . The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s . Central elements of Beat culture are rejection of standard narrative values , spiritual quest , exploration of American and Eastern religions , rejection of materialism , explicit portrayals of the human condition , experimentation with psychedelic drugs , and sexual liberation and exploration . Deliberate Prose - Essays 1952 to 1995 is a collection of essays penned by Allen Ginsberg in the years 1952 to 1995 . The writer and poet was consistently outspoken and passionate about his beliefs . The essays are arranged by subject and include commentary on such themes as China , Vietnam , and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago . William Seward Burroughs II ( February 5 , 1914  August 2 , 1997 ) was an American novelist , short story writer , satirist , essayist , painter , and spoken word performer . Burroughs was a primary figure of the ___MASK69___ and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre , and his influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature . Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas , six collections of short stories and four collections of essays . Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences . He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians , and made many appearances in films . He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee . Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( June 3 , 1926  April 5 , 1997 ) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the ___MASK69___ of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow . He vigorously opposed militarism , economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture , such as his views on drugs , hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions . He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the ___MASK69___ , which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S . Burroughs .