we walked into the water too. A million cars stood empty along the beach. Umm... O_o OK, I'll have a crack...the masses have a herd mentality, like sheep...except here there's no shepherd! They all go like without being told! The act...like Lemmings! The Lemmings creatures...the rodents...they're described as mindless...things, that just act on impulse. Humans do that a lot too...oh, wait! Religious madness...they have some mad belief and they will follow that belief even if it causes them extreme suffering! They would die for a stupid belief! Martyrs do that. For religious fanaticism no less. Some of the Lemmings are laughing while others are serious...people would throw their lives away for some mad cause and in the end, the two policemen in the story, after discussing the madness, follow the madness themselves...also, it sounds like some rapture thing. Drown, get raptured by the Giant Squid Master, and other such rubbish. Did I miss anything? Yes, at first thought it does seem to be a zombifying way of being doesn't it? I think this is what repulses people. I think the key is becoming conscious of it, before people are truly conscious they are truly a zombie, reacting to stimulous, whether good or bad, totally unconsciously, true zombies. Becoming conscious of this frees you and it is so liberating, the idea that there is a higher power that is underpinning everything then becomes a comfort, seemingly bad things aren't as bad and the good things are even better. You see things