1. Want to talk about Dave Sim, the cartoonist who created Cerebus the Aardvark. He's the John the Baptist who prefigured both Jordan Peterson & David Brooks.pic.twitter.com/cMFcfNRbpM
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4. Sim's comics & prose essays became devoted to rants, talking about Male Reason versus Female Void, the evils of Cultural Marxism, feminism, etc. All eerily similar to what Peterson became famous for.
5. Here's my longer spiel on ways Sim anticipated Peterson:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/965667287893069824 …
6. To justify his crackpot beliefs, Sim also invented a syncretic religion fusing together aspects of Judaism, Christianity & Islam. Now David Brooks is doing that for Judaism and Christianity!
7. Peterson and Brooks are famous & celebrated. Sim is a half-forgotten crackpot even in the world of alternative comics, a semi-hermit living in Southern Ontario. But he anticipated the turn that the North American right would take.
8. One last thought: Sim, Brooks and Peterson were all born in Canada. What is there about Canada that produces such men?
8. Hypothesis: as the hinterland of Western civilization, Canada produces overambitious thinkers who love grand syncretic theorizing: Marshall McLuah, Northrop Frye, Harold Innis, Hugh Kenner, Jordan Peterson, David Brooks, Dave Sim
So sad he lost his marbles. Was such a great comic to begin with, too.
His “becoming unhinged” came from heavily self-medicating w/ LSD after having what used to be called a nervous breakdown—not his first. Prior to that he was fairly liberal; it was a pretty dramatic swing, and you can see it happening almost in real time in his work.
Came here to say this, but you beat me to it. The stuff from Peterson recently struck me as being very much like Sim's gendered ontology.
okay. I felt this was a GREAT man until I stopped looking...in about 1988...which means I never saw the real insanity
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