My thought; the reason why so many people gossip about other people, or into the business of other people is that because they themselves lack some sort of focus or goal.
It is like a self-ennui, or a self boredom. We ourselves or so bored of ourselves that we are more interested in the latest celebrity gossip, or into the last controversial thing that Kanye West said.
The contradictory thing in America is that it is considered a vice to be self-absorbed, self-centered, or even self focused. To be into oneself is considered bad. Yet, it is OK to gossip about politics, or other people.
My thought: don’t talk about other people. Only talk about yourself or your own thoughts or what you believe in.
Become more into yourself than others.