"What we protested against was not simply a particular authority, but our very selves as we grew up under martial law," explains Chen Chieh-jen. That is to say, as the generation that had grown up under martial law, their lives were spent in a stultifying atmosphere, and they felt a kind of undefinable anxiety and unhappiness they wished to express, without a very clear idea of what they were opposing.
「反抗的不止是某一威權，也包括在戒嚴中長大的自己」，陳介人覺得，若說反抗或叛逆，其實是很模糊的，因為他們都是在戒嚴中成長的一輩，只是覺得生命很沈悶，體內有種莫名的焦躁、不安，需要抒發，也不是那麼清楚要反抗什麼。