1. I don't understand the meat diet bashing, his health problems were due to prescription benzo withdrawal reaction.
2. It's also interesting to compare him to another public intellectual like Noam Chomsky. Chomsky's academic expertise is linguistics, yet he's more known for his political commentary. I think Chomsky is just a guy who is very well read and keeps informed on the news.
1. He's kind of a ridiculous figure, and unfortunately people are bashing him when he is down in every way. I will admit to ridiculing his voice.
2. Chomsky would never have been a shadow of what Peterson's potential is. He could have been a cross between Dr. Phil and a public intellectual... if he were smarter, more empathetic, more careful with words etc.
They would love to have somebody like that to put on TV. Chomsky can't get arrested. Another one I really like is Dr. Richard Wolff... a friendly, avuncular Marxist...