Critique on David Brooks, "Orgainization Kid"

David Brooks wrote a provocative piece for the April 2001 edition of the Atlantic Monthly. His article entitled, “The Organization Kid,” reveals some useful insights about the attitudes and goals of the future leaders of this country. He provides characteristics and values of those born in 1982 or thereafter. Brooks finds these young people “to be group-oriented, deferential to authority and achievement obsessed.”(Brooks, 367) In distinguishing today’s generation, Brooks focuses on the essences of obedience and uses examples of economic prosperity and social reform. I question the overall validity and evidence Brooks uses to support his main points. I disagree with the author due to lack of evidence he presents.
The world can seem like a pretty neat place to middle-class, American teenagers. They are not seeing friends sent off to war, the economy is sustaining its record of unprecedented growth and teenagers are pretty much free to indulge the impulses of their ...