But I do suspect—metaphorically speaking—that these guys [like Peterson and other ideologues, from MAGA to the manosphere] are the id of an overly-ignorant public too overconfident even to see their own ignorance, much less recognize it as a problem they need to solve. 

We have almost reached the point where we worship ignorance. Somehow, it is Ok if an uninformed anti-vaxer is in charge of our health, if incompetent bunglers are in charge of defense and the FBI, and the President himself had previously demonstrated himself to be unable to understand the complexities of good government. It is almost considered an advantage to be uninformed, to just wing it without having any expertise to understand the arguments involved.

What the heck happened to society?