"In an increasingly isolated and entitled society..." If true, it seems an odd mix of outcomes for a national psyche, but perhaps it can be explained. How wou

"In an increasingly isolated and entitled society..." If true, it seems an odd mix of outcomes for a national psyche, but perhaps it can be explained. How would a society become both isolated and entitled? Are they independent outcomes with independent causes? Correlated by some common cause? Or did one cause the other?