Corrections

 It is no secret that I have great admiration and affection for Jordan Peterson. I believe he is 85 or 90% accurate in his existentialist/biology-based appraisal of people. I love his love of the truth, individualism as a doctrine, and his urging people to find meaning through taking responsibility.

His conception of hierarchies may need some tweaking: for example, a hierarchy of recognition of straight excellence in performance--say of painters of landscapes--is sound, but the average person as a great souled, individuated and individuating, can paint very fine landscapes with a spiritually-driven IQ of a 150, while Peterson with his natural IQ of 150, will as a landscape painted and maverizer, paint with a developed IQ of 190. Of course there is a hierarchy revealed here, but with the average person performing at such a high, wondrous level, they will lift the entire society.

Those average people will construct a society, a mass society of individuated anarchism and supercitizens running the economy and the government by negotiated consent, with small, powerful, but limited government, a constitutional republic with free markets with a plethora of liberty and individual opportunity.

Natural geniuses like Jordan will be at the top of the hierarchy in performance in their chosen occupation, but that elitism will not transfer over into an oligarchy running economic or political or other civic society institutionals. Those institutions will be run by the supercitizens, proud, informed, wise, willful and jealous of their personal liberties, allowing no greedy intellectuals or others oligarchs to emerge centralizing power to themselves and their ilk, controlling the common people, corrupting and enslaving all.

I heard on an interview with Jordan yesterday that he felt that talent was rare, so society needs to naturally superior few to go to the top, for their sake and for the benefit of society. Let me repeat: let them be powerful in their fields, but not run the political or economic hierarchies. Those need to be flattened as much as possible so a huge upper middle class of stubborn but reasonable supercitizens run these institutions and the society itself from the bottom up.

Talent is not rare at all. All have it: some more than others, but let us encourage, as a divine command, that each individual, even an autistic or mentally handicapped adult, to become all that she can become, and the miracles concomitant to this unleashing of human potential will dazzle all, including wise, decent Jordan.

These are my criticisms of his philosophy, and my proposed corrections. In all honesty, I am only offering an updated version of what Hoffer hinted at in the late 1960s.