David Brooks does an excellent article on ‘If It Feels Right.’ The article talks about the morality of emerging generation. Brooks achieves his work through the contexts of Christian Smith, Hilary Davidson, Kari Christoffersen, and Patricia Snell Herzog who interviewed the various group of youths in America.
Thesis statement
I agree with David Brooks that the emerging generation cannot be able to differentiate right or wrong.
I support Brooks’ argument that young people have failed to distinguish what right or wrong because they appear non-judgemental and less concern as opposed to older people. According to Brooks, the young generation has disappointingly lost compass with which to crosswise moral characteristics. Brooks further argues that young people between eighteen to twenty-three years olds are living in world full of sins and wickedness. Ideally, Brooks appears discouraged because of the way the young people think and talk about moral issues.
‘When asked to define a moral dilemma they had faced, two-thirds of the young people ………………………………….if they had enough quarters to feed the meter at a parking spot.’
With a support of Smith and company context, Brooks argues that two-third of the youth are in a dilemma. Concerning the interviews conduction, in my view is that the young generation is working its way out into the new groupings and languages about right morals that will take into account the potentials of emerging culture and awareness. Not forgetting the fundamental theory that suggests that awareness and culture have continued to change through clear stages of development. They include warrior phase, modernism, traditionalism, and postmodernism. These development stages apply to Brooks’ context, and each of them of them has ethical features that are different from one the other. For instance, modernism phase increasingly discloses itself within a given culture and within the inhabitants of that culture. Ideally, Brook fails to understand how these stages occur within an individual member of a given culture.
My thesis that ‘I agree with David Brooks that the emerging generation cannot be able to differentiate right or wrong’ cut across the idea of the post-modern culture that has affected our young generation. Likewise, the emergence of new traditional values today is the fundamentally long-lasting acquisition for every person who has full-fledged outside traditionalism.
“I would do what I thought made me happy or how I felt.’ I have no other way of knowing what to do but how I internally feel.”
This shows the young people have accepted feelings as a rational means of the judgment which is a realization of postmodernism stage. In my opinion, this is what has led to the young people’s dilemma because people are not informed of their interior as well as the world of others. As a result, feelings become disadvantaged more often because the young persons have no consciousness what is right or wrong. In the interview carried out by Smith and the company, many youths claims that their feelings are not linked to their thinking.
In summation, it is very clear that young people have lost focused and cannot tell what is right or wrong. In contrast, the older generation has a role to play in ensuring the younger adults inherit the right morals. Ideally, it is impossible to tell the quantity of immorality, but the adult can be able to identify the immoral issues and rectify them.