I simply don't agree that he runs away from questions. He often gets closer to the core of the issue than almost anyone else. And he's certainly not a grifter.

"He defends authoritarian anti-democratic structures" - this is you listening to JP through a filter. He never defends these things. In fact, he's basically spent his entire life trying understand and defend against authoritarian structures.

His main argument about hierarchies is that they're natural for human beings. Which they are. He never says we should live under authoritarian hierarchies.