Those paparazzis!

I was flipping the channels while sipping my tea just now and on a channel called Star! I came across a show about paparazzis and stars who live their lives on the edge.
I know it's all about the money for them, selling their pictures to the magazines, and I suppose money takes the place of dignity and self-respect. If I was 45 years old, I think I'd find it more than a little embarrassing to make my living driving after 20 year olds all day and hanging out outside their house in the hopes of taking a picture of them whiping their ass or blowing their nose. I wonder if the prospect of making a lot of money would make me forget all about pride. I can't imagine it. I know it's easy for me to sit here on my high horse and judge since I'm not in that situation, but I can't imagine that I'd be able to live with myself. Not because of the moral issue of harassing people and shove a camera in their face, although that's ridiculous as well, but because I'd find it incredibly pathetic if I spent my life doing this.
Can you imagine, day after day, taking candid pictures of total strangers doing mundane things such as eating salad leaves or carrying a cup of Starbucks coffee. I think I'd want to shoot myself if I had to do that. What's even worse is that verocity that these guys go after their prey. Driving around wildly in some jeep with a manic facial expression all day. Is it dollar signs in their eyes or just sheer obsession?
Moreover, this whole thing begs the question of why people are so interested in these nonsense snapshots of celebrities doing ordinary things. There wouldn't be paparazzis if there wasn't a market for this crap right. For some reason, people are fascinated with celebrities and that extends to seeing them perform even the most trivial tasks. I don't get it. When I was 16 I might have gotten it but not as an adult. I like Kiefer Sutherland but that doesn't mean I want to see him coming out of a gym all sweaty or wearing sunglasses while having lunch in some restaurant. Nor would I be interested in seeing a blurry picture of Lindsay Lohan, or anyone else, driving by in a car.
Oooh...she's driving car! Look, there she goes driving down the street! OOOH...she's getting out to get a slurpee!!! Oh and look, there's Beyoncee coming out of her gym!!! She's all sweaty...oh...my...god...how sensational!

Bizarre!