Thanks. Yeah, as you said by the end there, it's not just word salad but the worst of the academic variety. When I used to read academic literature, I found a lot of that puffed-up writing, and Peterson certainly fits the bill, especially his earlier book, Maps of Meaning.

In a way it's not his fault because he didn't set those standards. Academics have to write a certain way to publish in those journals. He succeeded in that game. Mind you, if he's left academia and is writing for a public audience, he should be able to write at a different level; otherwise, he is indeed to blame. Frankly, it was a pleasure to read Robert Shapiro after Peterson, because Shapiro's writing hasn't been tainted by academia.

It's a question of hiding, I think. Academics hide the emptiness or smallness of their ideas behind those prepackaged abstractions. George Orwell's famous article on how to write well targeted Peterson's kind of word salad.