You’d think that a scholar in psychology, however flawed, would understand projection, and that fascism is more than making trains run on time, even when they didn’t. Hail Hydra, because parody is meta-criticism and perhaps we’ll see some plagiarism lawfare over self-help brand infringement.
Apparently Jordan Peterson got offended that Ta-Nehisi Coates did a parody of his ideas with Red Skull, and someone consoled him by linking one of my comics, which none of them seem to realize is also a parody of people like him lmao. pic.twitter.com/HA4ETmgqD3
— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) April 6, 2021
Jordan Peterson getting angry about comic book villain Red Skull makes us appreciate how Ta-Nehisi Coates gets the ideology of nazi dirtbags completely right, much like the current US neo-nazis are syncretically encouraged by Putin.
In this Marvel arc, a post-Soviet Aleksander Lukin does have that Zombie Putin as ex-KGB and Aleksandr Dugin RW authoritarian syncretism going on.
Lukin and the Red Skull have worked uneasily together against their common foe Captain America, even as the Red Skull wages a campaign for control of Lukin’s body; Lukin vows to kill himself before allowing that to happen.[6] Upon the Winter Soldier’s discovery of Lukin’s connection with the Red Skull, the Red Skull and Lukin fake ‘their’ death to continue to operate from the shadows.[7] With his former enforcer as Captain America, the pair contrive to abduct Sharon Carter to attach to a machine that will bring back the time-displaced Steve Rogers, however, their captive rebels and destroys the machine. In a last-ditch maneuver, Arnim Zola transfers the Red Skull’s consciousness into a robot while Lukin is free at last before being gunned down by Carter only a few seconds afterwards.[8]
It was later revealed that Lukin was brought back from the dead by his wife Alexa Lukin, with the help of Rasputin and Selene. The Lukins join the Power Elite. As a side effect of his revival, the fragment of Red Skull’s mind within Lukin was also revived.[9]
In other intelligence failures, the public sphere gets a chance to return:
