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. 
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.
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.
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:
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
