Hi Ian
If I am walking down a path and I meet a man coming in the opposite direction looking like shit, and he tells me that the journey I am going on is futile,to turn back, that he is the voice of experience. If that man so happens to be Wittgenstein, then it is appropriate to paraphrase his warning about the futility of philosophy and take it on board. Common sense.
Anyway back to what is wokeness and to hell with philosophical nonsense..
Again, the first problem you have here is that you are claiming philosophy is nonsense but you started the thread by posting philosophy (of a sort). Peterson thinks of himself as a philosopher, and his only serious work was largely a work of philosophy.
I also can tell that you haven't read much Wittgenstein, or at least you didn't get it. Have you read what he said about philosophy in the Tractatus and elsewhere? "Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts."
All philosophical problems are either common sense or nonsense. Which brings us to the philosopher in the video posted, he is talking nonsense not common sense.
If you are talking about Peterson, I completely agree. Of course, you are not. And so, I repeat: you have to get it to get it.
As for Peterson I guess the question might be, has he had a positive effect on people overall. Not whether he is philosophically or intellectually profound or right (no pun intended), but is there evidence that he has been useful in society. It would seem and I could be wrong that he has had a tremendously positive effect on many, primarily but not exclusively young men. He has put some common sense into them and not more philosophical nonsense, the infamous "tidy your room" mantra, go and do something useful and so on. Easy enough to do, if you were brought up in a good enough house hold, though these simple instructions are often sniggered at by self referential intelligent people.
It's hard to quantify the good or bad of Peterson. What I can see is that he delivers a reactionary message that uses boogeymen to "other" groups of people he disagrees with. He also doesn't take the time to understand their points of view. Did you see his debate with Zizek on Marxism? Where he admits that he hasn't really read Marx? He pontificates about history but is historically ignorant. He tells folks to clean their room but doesn't clean his own. He says to fix yourself before fixing others but goes on speaking tours to make money while being so addicted to drugs that he had to disappear for two years.
I'd have no problem with Peterson if he stuck with his quasi-medical practice and self-help stuff and stayed out of reactionary politics and refrained from playing the guru. He is eminently unqualified.
I'm also unclear what you mean by self-referential in this case.
Finally, I will note that it is not surprising that someone who (perhaps unwittingly) posts anti-vax videos would want to create a binary where there is common sense and then philosophy. No room for thinking, self-critique (is that what you meant by self-reference? It's the opposite of how I usually use it), or rigor. Certainly no room for science if you want to stick to common sense.