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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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
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