Quick Hit: Generation Q vs. Generation Overwhelmed

I wrote a response to Thomas Friedman’s New York Times op-ed “Generation Q”–aka Quiet–for a lady some of you might know over at The American Prospect Online (the amazing Ann). In short, I argue that it isn’t that we are quiet, but that we are overwhelmed. Friedman has, in my opinion, mistaken our paralysis for apathy. Check it out.
I’m actually doing a little speaking at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois today and had the good fortune to hash out some of these ideas with a whole new, non-urban, non-Ivy League, largely religious and ethnically white demographic–unlike most of my friends back in Brooklyn–and found that they see two different “types” among their peers: the aware and overwhelmed, and the unaware and conspicuously consuming. I learn so much being on the road and hanging out with people…
Your thoughts?