It is a blind passion. I also believe that most of them are sheep. I commend you for not being a sheep. Usually though, in my experiance, it's one ring leader and a pack of wolves. Otherwise, there'd be no desision of who is cool and not. It's very primal. I donno. As I said, I'm not use to 'popular' circles anymore. I'm use to hanging out with beautiful and not beautiful people that all get along together great cause they all have inner beauty. Scouting has been very dear to me cause of it. We get all sorts- including handy cap people, people with physical disabilities, people of all colour, and people that are shy. You can't help but be happy when you are around people that want to make an effort for others.
It saddens me to see stuff about beautiful people that are so creul to others, cause it doesn't need to be like that. Essentially though, it's the Alpha male / female coming out, and the rest want to bask in their glory. *sigh*