It is interesting that there are certain service sectors, namely ones providing services in the home, that breed a need to live vicariously through their employers. To wit: imagine a full-time housekeeper. S/he works inside someone's home to allow that person or those people to have lives outside that home. In other words, the employers are busy doing things, producing either objects or services, that can be both seen and acknowledged by the outside world.
Now imagine what the person working inside that household does: cleans. Cooks. Shops for those people. Prepares food for them. And then, when they come home, listens to their triumphs. In the outside world.
No wonder people like Kato Kaelin, of Nicole Brown Simpson fame talked the way he did. His words, and his conversation, can be reduced to one word: gossip. That's because he didn't produce anything himself. He lived vicariously through other people's lives. In essence, he did not have his own life. So he garnered vicarious pleasure, pride, and even a sense of achievement, through the lives of those around him who actually did something other than take care of someone else's house.
It is sad. No wonder these people gossip so much. It's what they have. Because their own lives are devoted to making other people's outside lives possible. By taking care of their home lives for them. Cleaning their homes. Cooking for them. And taking care of their children.
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