Today, everything is everybody's business. The next step is for it to become the government's business. I don't know how many millions of dollars Derek Jeter gets paid for playing shortstop for the Yankees, but I know that not one of those millions comes from me. That's between him and George Steinbrenner. It's none of my business.
Purple prose is one factor.
Melodrama has become the royal road to power. Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us. You cannot even build or remodel your own home without finding yourself under the thumb of local bureaucrats and tangled in red tape.