“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Peterson would do well to go back to basics and follow that advice. If he recognises the need to end the status quo and work towards a more equal, cooperative world, he has a good way of hiding it. Very few people argue for a total dogmatic annihilation of everything ‘captialist’ or ‘Western’, so it’s a strawman argument. Maybe the reappearance of the Khmer Rouge is stuck in his head as the biggest threat to humanity, but we all know who supported them.
Can you imagine Peterson in the same room as Orwell and Huxley? They would be in awe, not of his intellect, but of his unashamed ability to waffle endlessly on about nothing in particular. I can’t see Peterson writing something half as perceptive as Brave New World or Island any time soon.