The Millennial Meltdown

An article by columnist Michael Brown titled, “Why Are The Millennials Protesting?”, posted on March 10, 2017 in the right leaning blog, Townhall, offers a possible explanation as to why we are seeing the intense behaviors associated with the millennials’ social and political movements of recent times. Brown references an article by Ewan Morrison that cites an enormous rise in personality disorders, depression, and anxiety since the early 1990’s that has afflicted millennials who grew up during this time period. It is believed that a change in traditional parenting roles and “positive parenting” brought about by progressives of the time plays a large part in this sudden increase.

As a millennial myself, I must agree that all points ring true to what I have personally witnessed and experienced through my generation’s upbringing into adulthood. Although this article explains the millennial psyche, I find it lacks any sort of proposed solution to the problem at hand. What Brown has brought to the table is nothing the general public wasn’t already aware of.

An article like this only reinforces the victim mentality present in my generation. When responsibility for our actions is waived in favor of highlighting the mistakes of a previous generation’s style of parenting, we cannot expect to see this problem decline. If a lack of accountability or consequence experienced during upbringing has helped to bring about the millennial generation’s hyper inflated narcissism, it would make sense to revert away from the progressive approach and work towards teaching the hard life lessons that my generation has been resistant to understand or accept.