It's amusing to me how the king of personal responsibility wants to blame everyone from vegans to feminists to college professors for the ills of the world. For me, the greatest harm Peterson perpetrates is that he teaches young men to externalize all of their discomfort with a changing world rather than to look within and truly grapple with themselves. A psychologist should know better!

I had never thought about the Cold War baby aspect in quite that way before, but you are absolutely right. He's also deeply attached to the idea that patriarchal dominance-based hierarchies are about merit- which frankly is a laugh. We also haven't shared a common ancestor with lobsters for something like 70 million years.

"I have actually heard Peterson admit that patriarchy has many tyrannical elements (although on alternate days, he denies that patriarchy even exists) but when he does stipulate to it, defends it as necessary for a successful society. “Wouldn’t you want a surgeon who was excellent?” he queries. The problem with that analogy, however, is that an excellent surgeon has earned that status by demonstrating skill and patriarchy is not about earning your place in the hierarchy through merit. It’s about clawing your way to as high in the pecking order as you can get, by any means necessary, including violently holding other people down or erecting barriers to them being able to compete. I don’t want a surgeon who got a top slot at a hospital by breaking the hands of his rivals and telling lies about them, and who may or may not be any good with a scalpel. I’m guessing you don’t either."

https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/patriarchy-isnt-a-merit-based-hierarchy-553cb35a06d9