Nietzsche coined the terms herd instinct or slave morality, which
represents the kind of morality or ideology produced by a group of
people, such as a culture or a society. The herd instinct is the
inevitable consequence of society, and it is considered extremely
difficult for an individual to take on a value or moral system apart
from the society within which one is embedded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
Suddenly somebody began to run. It may be that he had simply
remembered, all of a moment, an engagement to meet his wife, for which
he was now late, Whatever it was, he ran east on Broad Street (probably
toward the Maramor restaurant, a favorite place for a man to meet his
wife).Somebody else began to run, perhaps a newsboy in high spirits.
Another man, a portly gentleman of affairs, broke into a trot.
Inside of ten minutes, everybody on High Street, from the Union depot
to the courthouse was running.
A loud mumble gradually crystallized into a dread word "dam." "The dam
has broke!"
