And the Schmitz is right on this one. "Our society" always had an incredible desire to know stuff about other people, and the more mundane the better. "We" ar

And the Schmitz is right on this one. "Our society" always had an incredible desire to know stuff about other people, and the more mundane the better. "We" are just bunch of nosey aholes, everything from the guy next door, the generic office gossip to the latest b-list celebrity meltdown. People in government just happen to have both free time and large sums of money.