Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?

[The Grand Nudger]

You are using catchwords that don't matter to me.  You're saying I'm acting out because I'm insecure-- I'd almost be tempted to call it an appeal to emotionality-- "You're just saying these things because you can't handle X," where X is some emotional state which is meant to stereotype.  Here, let's try it out and see if it means anything.

You are insecure.  You just rattled off a list of your insecurities.  You're going to do it again and then explicitly say that you're insecure below.  

I'm perfectly happy to own my anxiety.  I'm living a really try-hard life, and my success depends largely on my being able to keep my eye on the ball as I work 12 hours a day building my business.

Rock it out.

It's harder now than it was 15 years ago.  I get college kids working for me, and holy fuck! I have to deal with the politics in a very real way.  This one can't come to a workplace unless I get a signed form from every parent saying they won't send snacks with peanuts, despite lying on the health form which specifically asks about allergies.  That one needs at least 10 minutes break every hour or he starts talking about human rights, even though I let them go home an hour early almost every day, and even though the labor board told him (on speaker phone ) that he had a great schedule-- her words: "I wish I got that pay and those hourly breaks, sir.  Your employer sounds quite generous."  Another one complains that she's been racially targeted-- her evidence for which is that other teachers sometimes leave books on her desk, which is right next to the teacher's room door and immediately UNDER a book shelf with backup books.  I offered to exchange desks with her, and she took this as FURTHER evidence of racism: "I shouldn't HAVE to change desks with you.  That you won't find and stop whoever's doing this to me proves that YOU are deliberately supporting this hateful harassment."

Catch that last one again.  I immediately identified the real reason people had left books on her desk sometimes, I immediately offered to switch with her, so I would be inconvenienced rather than her, and she STILL found a way to make it all about her, and her victimhood, and my white male privilege.  Yes, that creates a lot of anxiety.

It's hard to be a white man. 

Our contract requires that sick days must be accompanied with a doctor's note.  It turns out that two employees (they were sisters) did not believe in western-style medicine.  I told them to get a note from their naturopathic healer, whether titled or not.  They said the healer wouldn't give them a sick note because they weren't legally allowed to.  I said fine, give me their phone number so I can verify that you even WENT there.  They refused and started shoveling all kinds of tall tales about why they shouldn't have to: I was violating their right to privacy by trying to find out where they went, I was violating their right to medical self-determination by asking for a doctor's note at all, I was racist because I never questioned a white employee when HE took a day off (actually, he DID get a doctor's note, and he even offered to come in to make up some of the lost classes).  And again. . . in simply trying to carry out the function of the office, they found a way to make it all about my oppressive whiteness.

All of this made me want to stab steak knives into my eyes just to lessen the pain.  I just. . . want. . . to. . . do. . . my. . . fucking. . . job.

This is my experience of the young liberal left-- they are fucking lazy.  They are special snowflakes.  They expect everything to be done for them.  They will not EVER lift a finger to help anyone else.  They are owed the world.  They do not owe anybody anything, even when given special considerations.

Okay.

While I appreciate your story...and Benny you know I loveya bruh...none of that changes the fact that Peterson is a crank who appeals to your insecurities.

Absolutely, you are right. I'm acting on my anxiety, which is real.

Self knowledge is precious! I believe that your insecurities are real..I don't actually believe that the conceptual target of your insecurities, once they manifest themselves as a political ideology.... are.

I think you've drunk the koolaid that was explicitly made for you. I worry that the people who make the koolaid don't really have your best interests..or anyone's best interests, at heart.