Plutarch, I am even more cocooned than I thought: I have not heard of this new movie, and I just yesterday found out why there have been posts about the Yankees being in Phoenix being attacked by snakes--apparently there is a baseball team called...oh yeah, the Diamondbacks (I think).
And they must be pretty good, because it seems that they made it to the World Series, which is now apparently over. I was told who won, but have forgotten.
Anyway--the reason for my post (finally) is that I have heard the word cocooning used to describe a cultural trend of the nineties: people staying home with their TV's, rented movies, and their computers.