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| Cerebus #66 (September 1984) Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard |
(from the Usenet Interview, 1992)
The centerpiece of fascism and totalitarianism is Maternal. We have
always had a Matriarchy, and the centerpiece of its thinking is to make
life safe for babies. If you call that "thinking". People who are
otherwise reasonable adults, the moment they drop a litter begin
mentally dismantling everyone's civil rights with the idea of making the
world a universal nursery. We see them today most profoundly in the
anti-smoking forces. Second hand smoke is dangerous so it must be wiped
out! Life at all costs! Mother Theresa using one of the ancient temples
of Kali to tend to the sick and the dying; BEAMING with happiness when
another baby is brought to her. I'm sure we will have a very large, very
charismatic Mother Theresa in the year Three Thousand when the whole
world looks like India, cheerfully finding a way to keep everyone alive
for another three years at whatever cost in resources and space. Did you
know that medical science discovered a way to impregnate women who are
past child-bearing years? That a seventy year old woman can have a baby
now? I'm sure Mother Theresa is MOST pleased. Not for herself. Just the
idea of more babies. I read an interview with someone close to the HUAC committee in the fifties who said the Senators for the most part, were
no better or worse than your average politician, but it was their WIVES
who took to the inquisition like fat little ducks to water. "What about
that Hollywood producer? He's a red isn't he? Why aren't you going after
him?" Mothers don't much care what happens to mothers Over There, as
long as Johnny is fighting to keep her hearth and home safe. Salome was
not an aberration; just the clearest possible manifestation.
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| Cerebus #66 (September 1984) Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard |
1 comment:
It just now occurred to me that there is an interesting parallel between Cerebus-as-pope-messiah in this panel, and Trump. Both are essentially illiterate barbarians, thrust by fortuitous circumstances into positions of unwarranted power, who make a combination of extravagant demands and promises to their supposed supporters. And sometimes the latter can get what they say they want, but come to regret their choices when it is too late.
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