I hadn't been exposed to Peterson's prose before. As the man himself says: > Only an individual accustomed to dining on very thin gruel or simply spoiled meat

I hadn't been exposed to Peterson's prose before. As the man himself says: > Only an individual accustomed to dining on very thin gruel or simply spoiled meat would find any nourishment in statements with such content and of that quality. Granted, he thus describes the disclaimer by an institution of one of its tenurees' dismissal of efforts toward greater diversity of representation. That would be a reasonable thing for Peterson to complain about, if the sex-blind, colorblind meritocracy in which he so fervently believes could be shown in fact to exist. As it is, Peterson neatly both describes and exemplifies the quality of his own written effort, which combines the worst qualities of purple prose and library paste. It's honestly a shame. Bad ideas expressed well can at least be interesting; even good ideas, expressed this poorly, would still fail to sustain the reader's attention.