The Passion for watching our neighbors is probably as old as cave dwellers peering around trees. As humans, we are curious beings, and we probably have spent much of our existence watching and gossiping about our neighbors. Passersby may be repelled at what they see, but they still can't resist looking at an accident or fire. We all know that it's a lot more fun to watch someone else slip on a banana peel than to be the one falling down. Or, to put it in 21st-century terms, it's a lot easier to watch 16 castaways stranded on a desert island, a frazzled want-to-be-a-millionaire struggle with an easy question, seven people locked up in a house, an English family spending three months in a middle-class household circa 1900, or a multimillionaire choosing a bride from a bevy of unknown women.
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