Do you help your neighbor to help your neighbor, or to add the experience of helping your neighbor to your collection of experiences?

From an advertisement: "Ever since we invented the first personal shredder, Fellowes has been dedicated to improving every aspect of the shredding experience."  The shredding experience?  Now we boomers have done all manner of wild and crazy things in quest of experience, but does anyone shred for the experience of it?

A culture of narcissism in which the focus is on the self and his experiences as opposed to the world and its objects.