[normac2]

> Whenever I come across something I don't understand, I will try to figure it out. If it seems utterly weird, that's even more motivation to figure it out! I really can't imagine this mode of thought where you read something, do not immediately grasp it, and then feel that somehow it's wrong/bad/obscurantist. Like, how do you learn anything at all?

It's a matter of the tone, and also the fact that when I do read carefully and figure out what they're saying, I often think "wow, I could have put that in much simpler terms with no loss of information."

I don't feel this way about literally any other topic besides modern literary criticism (and stuff in that family like modern continental philosophy). Even analytic philosophy looking at similar topics doesn't normally feel willfully opaque in the same way, and I'm happy to dig in and learn the more difficult aspects of what they're saying.

Do you think this is due to being prejudiced about this exact area and nothing else?

[iworshipfaangs2]

> I often think "wow, I could have put that in much simpler terms with no loss of information."

Why not try? Seriously, that actually might be a good exercise in trying to cross into the "humanities brain" that you postulated.

In my other comment child comment in this thread, I also tried to revise it, and I think I showed that it wasn't very easy to do for me.