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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      1. So I have some thoughts on Jordan Peterson, vintage clothing, George Eliot, Carl Jung, comparative mythology, fascism, the Indiana Jones movies, ancient astronauts & Jack Kirby's New Gods.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      2. As @NellieBowles noted in her brilliant profile, Jordan Peterson likes to cultivate an old-timey look on stage. This is a longstanding thing with him (he once went to visit a prison wearing Victorian cape).pic.twitter.com/TpdZilziST

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      3. Peterson's preference for stagy vintage clothing is matched by his intellectual style. He's cast himself as a mythologist, a seer who discovers the underlying archetypes that guide human thought. This is something more common in 19th & 20th century than now

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      4. Remember Middlemarch? Dorothea Brooke falls for Mr. Casaubon, a venerable scholar who thinks he's discovered "the key to all mythology" but turns out to be a musty fraud. Already in 19th century, mythologists seemed a little quaint.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      4. Despite George Eliot's attempt to deflate with wit, mythologists continued to gain speed in 20th century, in part because it was a tradition that seemed to offer alternative to fraying social order of modernity.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      5. Many leading 20th century mythologists -- Jung, Eliade, Joseph Campbell -- leaned towards the far right (sometimes to fascism). This wasn't an accident: mythologist were searching for a replacement of natural theology to shore up hierarchy & fend off egalitarianism

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      6. The Nazi fascination with occultism & with myth (which provided fodder for some of the Indiana Jones movies) was a popular manifestation of the same tendency.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      7. Of course, it's possible to take the same set of ideas & use them for other purposes. One of the achievements of Northrop Frye was that he took mythologist tradition of Jung & showed it could be progressive if you see myths as made culture, not timeless truths

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

      8. As per Frye: we inherit myths & archetypes but we also remake them. Blake turned the Devil into a hero, feminists like Kristin J Sollee turned witches into heroines. In Frozen, the traditional Disney witch-character (Elsa) is most loved character.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

          9. Myths aren't static & univocal (as Paterson treats them) but, like all cultural artifacts, contested, fluid & polyphonic. Frye showed this on a theoretical level, Jack Kirby through his art.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

          10. Running through Kirby's work is a fascination with myths, not seen as simply inherited things but open to renovation: mythology fusing with science fiction in stories of Ancient Astronauts (taken as much from pulps as von Danikens pseudo-science)pic.twitter.com/hWpZXL2t6l

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

          11. It's the fusion of science fiction with mythology that saves Kirby from the musty, status-quo loving traditionalism of the older mythologists: the New God embody older archetypes but also, crucially, contemporary uncertainty & anxiety.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2018

          12. I have more thoughts along this line here:https://newrepublic.com/article/148473/jordan-petersons-tired-old-myths …

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        1. p-brane‏ @BraneRunner 21 May 2018
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          you sound really deep

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        1. KW‏ @KrysiaW 21 May 2018
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          Cf, Joseph Campbell

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        2.  🐑 🦢 🐇‏ @strawpacifist 21 May 2018

          What is a myth's "own oeuvre" according to you?

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        1. Chad McGovern‏ @ChadMcGovernUSN 23 May 2018
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          Rewriting the devil as hero didn't create a myth. It took two existing archetypes, superimposed one over another and just obfuscated both. Myth is something that is reproduced & refined within culture across generations, not one man's art.

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