Crisis Of Purpose In Mr. David Brooks The Exodus Story

Mr. David Brooks believes that, as shown through his article, “The Unifying American Story,” with the many crises in America, the crisis of purpose could be considered the most foundational and acts as a catalyst that caused the loss of the “Exodus Story” and ultimately resulted in the so called “radical secularists” becoming immersed in a social-science, technocratic mindset of self-interest. While this is true in many aspects, it is seemingly more accurate that, instead of crisis of purpose resulting in the loss of the “Exodus Story”, the “radical secularists” have become absorbed in self-interested competition which caused the loss of the “Exodus Story” and resulted in a crisis of purpose. Brooks states, “The Exodus narrative has pretty much been

However, as said by William Graham Sumner in “The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over”, “The intensification of the social organization is what gives us greater social power … We are none of us ready to sacrifice this … We would not return to the colonial simplicity and the colonial exiguity if we could.” Religion was replaced with the concept of evolution and teaching sciences. This was seen, by many, as an improvement as it furthered many in their successes and their abundances. Although it is agreeable that this loss of religion was equivalent to the loss of the Exodus Story, it is even more so agreeable that the loss of religion was a way to push students into a more self-absorbed, competitive world where they no longer pursue the guidelines of the Exodus Story. Brooks also says, “Frederick Douglass embraced the Exodus too… ‘We came when it was a wilderness… We leveled your forests; our hands removed the stumps from the field… We have been with you… in adversity, and by the help of God will be with you in prosperity.” Brooks now believes that, although everyone drew from the Exodus Story, many still lost their sense of purpose and turned into self-interested “radical secularists”. But that is where