One theme from the Calvin and Hobbes strip was blind obedience, like the strip says the aliens would rather wipe out an entire place than be unemployed.
A present day issue that can be connected to blind obedience is gang violence. These days when people are in gangs it is just the blind leading the blind into a casket, or a jail cell. Now-a-days, the gangs have gotten really out of control and in some neighborhoods you can't even wear certain colors without being pressed and even killed. The people in the gangs just listen to what the people who have been in the gang longer than they have tell them to do whether it be robbing a store, stealing a car or even killing someone.
A text that relates back to this theme is The Hunger Games series, the people in the districts do whatever President Snow tells them to do because if they don't they know that they will be killed right then and there. There are certain rules that they have to abide by to survive and they follow them to keep both their families and themselves out of harm.
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