It's fun to slag on teenage boys but IMO they're not so much ideologically right-wing as they are desperate for the approval and mentorship of older dudes a lot of the time, and we are letting them down on that score (either by trying to indoctrinate them or not interacting with them at all).
Incredibly frustrating to listen to Peterson and his ilk [incorrectly] talk about Jung's more esoteric work when Jung The Actual Therapist was incredibly practical. He told people to join social clubs. If he were around today he'd send people to home brew classes and bowling leagues.
Right, this is where it becomes extremely obvious that this is just Tumblr media-consumption-as-praxis but from the right; you gotta Do Stuff Imperfectly, out in the world, not just Consume Input Correctly in such a way that you remain disconnected and thus desire more Input.
(Re: another point of yours elsewhere, pickup artists failed because their audience wanted a system that worked, while the market incentives are to create a system that fails; PUA shit that actually _worked_ would reduce the size of your captive market!)
Because it didn't matter what they were selling; whatever benefit accrued to the guys who bought into the whole PUA weltanschauung was largely confidence from having a 'system' - what that system was didn't matter, and as the market self-selected for ever more bitter and crazy dudes, it radicalized.
