I think we're suffering from a totally consumer based society these days.
You only have to look at the youth growing up today, that expect to somehow be on the same level as people ten, twenty years older than them. Its a society that says 'I'm right and I don't care what anyone else thinks'. It leads to kids that don't respect their parents and teachers, leads to crazy things such as happy slapping where kids think they are just above everything else and can do what they want.
I don't wish to label everyone to that degree, but its still there in other people, just to a lesser degree. It comes out as 'I want it, so I can have it' leading to a country that is ever more in debt. Its shown in the simple lack of respect of other people and complete lack of humility in any situation, because I'm number one and everyone should accept that.
Its a product of a consumeristic, capitalistic society and to be honest it makes me sick to see the attitudes of people these days.