The world of Millennials: they have fewer vices than their parents' generation.

THE WORLD OF MILLENNIALS –

The generational conflict, which takes shape in the eternal clash between children and parents, has never subsided, indeed it survives and always re-emerges under new guises.. And from America, which represents an extraordinary social laboratory capable of anticipating trends and changes in Western societies, come sensational data, and from a certain point of view even narcotic. According to the latest investigations of the National Institute on Drug Abuse , the generation of American Millennials (children born between 1980 and 2000) is overwhelming that of the Baby Boomers (parents and even grandparents, born in the years of the economic boom and grown up in the period of protest) on the most unexpected side: the quality of behaviors,education, The lifestyles. And the contextual rejection of transgressions, once a symbol of emancipation and freedom, and today considered less and less authentic and more dangerous.

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MILLENNIALS PHILOSOPHY –

The numbers say, for example, that the Heroin and cocaine use in America is at its lowest level since 1975. The smokers dropped by 11 percent in the last year alone, and are at their lowest in the chart analyzing cigarette use over the last quarter century. They decrease, among Millennials in the United States, even the consumption of alcohol, synthetic marijuana (the deadly super cannabis), of painkillers and analgesics used by teenagers as antidepressants. To the majority of the boys doesn't like sex with minors, is that trend so dear to the Baby Boomer generation to "get high" and "have fun" in unconventional forms and ways, It is judged by Millennials as a sort of great and useless hypocrisySo, is everything okay, ask American pedagogical and sociological scientists? Up to a point. By closely analyzing the data from various studies that photograph the new behaviors of Millennials, compared to those of Baby Boomers, It turns out that the vertical drop in drug and alcohol consumption is accentuated in the children of authoritarian parents, who do their job to the limit of maximum severity. And under the surface this generation of American Millennials is expressing a sort of break, very strong, precisely with those lifestyles of the parents, who between joints and alcohol, dreamed, or imagined, the world's new Nirvana. It's as if children were saying to their fathers, in chorus: I don't need your transgressions to become a man, and when I grow up I will be very different from you.

AMERICAN MILLENNIALS –

So far, America and its exciting new developments. And what about Italy? The world of Italian Millennials is not very different from that of their American peersThe latest data from the Department of Anti-Drug Policies (Dpa), which has been significantly reduced by Matteo Renzi's government, also reports to us In Italy, there has been a collapse in heroin and cocaine consumption, especially among the younger generations.In the 1990s, in our country, more than a thousand young people died each year from drugs, now we are at about a third of victims, while only the consumption of super drugs remains very high. cannabis, also due to a sort of effect creeping liberalization that took place in Italy. Even the young people who die for road accidents, due to alcohol and drugs, have plummeted, as the traffic police warn, and if anything, the shocking increase in young people falling victim to the misuse of smartphones and cell phones while driving is frightening and alarming. The same goes for smoking. Italian Millennials, in general, do not like cigarettes, and the Istat data on cigarette smoking in Italy are very interesting for understanding the change taking place.The highest percentage of heavy smokers is concentrated in the 55 to 65 age group (we are in the Baby Boomer generation), while the decrease in smokers in the 15 to 24 age group (and here we are in the Millennial generation) is proceeding at a rate of 6 percent per year.

ITALIAN MILLENNIALS –

Italian Millennials, like American kids, they are very attentive to the environment, to true sustainability, to fight against waste, to health, to well-being, to good quality of life. And they are not at all "lying down", as some authoritative parents of the Baby Boomer generation would like us to believe, if anything they are nauseated by the dwarfism of politics in its national version.So where does the difference lie with American peers? In the organization of conflict with parents, which in Italy is much more nuanced, perhaps also due to our innate, often amoral, familism. The professor Massimo Ammaniti, who in his professional experience has met several generations of young people, has written a short but enlightening book on the subject: The teenage family (Laterza editions). The short circuit, so uniquely Italian, of the (non)conflict between fathers and sons who share an unreal dimension of adolescence is beautifully explained here. When parents go back, they pretend to be their children's best friends and they abdicate their natural role, including authority; the children, not growing up, remain stuck in this dimension. liquid of lifeWhere the present dictates the law, and the future risks being nothing more than a bubble of fear.

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