There are a number of influences in this piece, starting with the online meme of: 'Dammit, Moon-Moon!, and how, specifically 'Moon-Moon' is always portrayed as the misfit of the wolf pack. This, of course, dovetails into larger notions of obedience and societal norms, and how we never take kindly to those, who dare to flout them. I also take further inspiration from a certain fellow I once knew, who liked to opine, ad nauseum, that dogs are more 'intelligent' than cats, because dogs are obedient, and cats not necessarily so: essentially the age-old cliché that everyone's heard all about, and I'm sure we all know our own version of that particular smug know-it-all.

The well known phrase: "No man is an island" is taken from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Dunne (1634)), and has been endlessly repeated ever since, though perhaps most saucily by the sixties psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane in their song: 'A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly', written by Spencer Dryden, Gary Alfred Blackman, and William Carl Thompson, and from their 1967 album After Bathing at Baxter's. Several times throughout the song, someone shouts out: "No Man is an Island!" The final time the phrase is repeated, right near the end of the song, the statement is suddenly followed up a couple of seconds of pregnant pause, and then the the sarcastic response: "He's a peninsula!'

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Help is on the way!" comes from a very iconic scene in George Lucas' 1971 film: THX 1138. In addition to this, "Help is on the Way" is also a well-known, 1976 song by the Seventies Australian group: "The Little River Band" (Help is on the Way being their first North American hit)

Likewise, the "easy cures" idea is pretty much a staple of an entire genre of dystopian fiction, from the aforementioned Lucas movie, to the book (and the 1966 film adaptation of) Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, to Huxley's Brave New World, to Zager & Evans' 1969 song: "In the Year 2525", which contains the line: "Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today..."

Yet another important influence comes from a Biblical reference from Deuteronomy 13:1-11 (KJV):

1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for theˇLordˇyour God proveth you, to know whether ye love theˇLordˇyour God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 Ye shall walk after theˇLordˇyour God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from theˇLordˇyour God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which theˇLordˇthy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

This, of course, dovetails into all the times and ways in which we've always assumed that there is something sinister and/or 'deviant' about a person being a 'loner'. It's almost a crime-story cliché that whenever a serial killer being profiled after they're captured, one of the first points that is stressed, is when the the killer is always described as a 'loner' and/or a 'misfit'. As the previous Biblical quote shows, irrespective of other factors, non-conformity is not something that is generally tolerated.