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* "Counting Sheep" by Music/TheCraneWives is about living as a StepfordSmiler in a totalitarian society and compares those who show BlindObedience to the totalitarian leaders to sheep.
-->''When the wool is off your eyes\\
You'll stop counting sheep at night\\
'Cause you'll get your fill of them\\
During the daytime''
-->''When the wool is off your eyes\\
You'll stop counting sheep at night\\
'Cause you'll get your fill of them\\
During the daytime''
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* ''Literature/TheSheepLookUp''. In this dystopian novel by Creator/JohnBrunner, the GreenAesop is how the world is doomed unless the [[ApatheticCitizens "sheep"]] start paying attention to environmental issues.
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Used as a metaphor in ''Literature/SmallGods'' to explain the unfortunate state of the Church of Om, which could be described as {{Dark Shepherd}}s at best and more accurately as totalitarian [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]].
-->The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different.\\
-->The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different.\\
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** Used as a metaphor in ''Literature/SmallGods'' to explain the unfortunate state of the Church of Om, which could be described as {{Dark Shepherd}}s at best and more accurately as totalitarian [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]].
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** Used as a metaphor in ''Literature/SmallGods'' to explain the unfortunate state of the Church of Om, which could be described as {{Dark Shepherd}}s at best and more accurately as totalitarian [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]].
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* ''VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb'': Inverted. The titular Lamb starts a cult and has to imprint and reinforce conformist beliefs in all of his followers. He is also doing this all on the direct orders of an EldritchAbomination [[spoiler:which at the end of the game, you can choose to stay faithful to, or betray at the last second]].
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** Inverted. The titular Lamb starts a cult and has to imprint and reinforce conformist beliefs in all of his followers. He is also doing this all on the direct orders of an EldritchAbomination [[spoiler:which at the end of the game, you can choose to stay faithful to, or betray at the lastsecond]].second]].
** The Naturally Obedient trait is represented by an icon of a sheep. Recruiting a Worshiper with this trait gets you 10 Faith.
** Inverted. The titular Lamb starts a cult and has to imprint and reinforce conformist beliefs in all of his followers. He is also doing this all on the direct orders of an EldritchAbomination [[spoiler:which at the end of the game, you can choose to stay faithful to, or betray at the last
** The Naturally Obedient trait is represented by an icon of a sheep. Recruiting a Worshiper with this trait gets you 10 Faith.
