Again, we can bring this together with something else Peterson has said, not about himself, but with apparent relevance to my perspective on him, and his overlap with the ‘alt-right’. His take on the Egyptian god Osiris is that he’s the father archetype, standing for ‘security and stability and the past’. He’s the good element of this archetype, but ‘he makes himself susceptible to the negative element [his evil brother Seth] by being wilfully blind.’ I think the blindness at work in Peterson’s skewed perspective in this debate is more complex than simple wilfulness. But merging the image of a very conservative, order-obsessed figure who suffers from a form of myopia that makes him susceptible to negativity, with the idea of speaking ‘black truths’, gets us close, I think, to imaging Peterson’s shortcomings.