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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

      2. From 1977 to 2004, Sim self-published Cerebus the Aardvark, a monthly comic book that formed a 6,000 page epic about ... a talking aardvark in a Conan-the-Barbarian universe with satires of feminism & reflections on religion added in.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

      3. As a friend once said, "Drawing thousands of pages about an aardvark will drive you insane. Don't think that it won't." True. Sometime in 1990s Sim became unhinged misogynist who invented his own religion.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

      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.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

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      5. Here's my longer spiel on ways Sim anticipated Peterson:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/965667287893069824 …

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      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      1. If Jordan Peterson does resemble an outsider artist it is not the great & wonderful Henry Darger but the embittered Dave Sim, creator of Cerebus the Aardvark. https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/965633591559454720 …
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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

      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!

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

      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.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

      8. One last thought: Sim, Brooks and Peterson were all born in Canada. What is there about Canada that produces such men?

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Jun 2018

          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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        1. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 13 Jun 2018
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          Long, cold prairie nights?

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        1.  🍁  🥃 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚂𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐  🧔🏻  🍁  🇺🇦‏ @markjschilling 13 Jun 2018
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          "Want to talk about Dave Sim." No. I thought we lost him to that personal hell he created.

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        1. Dave Coulter‏ @Dav_Coulter 13 Jun 2018
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          Maple syrup and Rush....

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        1. klonoa harris‏ @wolicyponk 13 Jun 2018
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          Kraft Dinner

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        1. Ian Pointer‏ @carsondial 13 Jun 2018
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          All this and *not* posting the baby throwing image? Sad! ;)

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        2.  🐦 The 1000 Eyes of Dr Marcuse‏ @ComradeCoolcat 13 Jun 2018
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          I think American far right people are less prone to try to mask and/or justify their beliefs with that kind of pseudo intellectual mysticism

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        1. Pierre J. Dupont - #Resist. For hope.‏ @PierreJDupont 13 Jun 2018
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          It's likely that we're universally mellow and accepting, so the pushback is that we occasionally foster a bunch of reactionaries and nutjobs.

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        1. Nathanael Aff‏ @nateaff 13 Jun 2018
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          Build 👏that 👏wall👏

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