/lit/ - Literature

>read pic related
>first essay: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening
>have a hard time focusing
>take all day to slog through 30 pages
>only understand half of it
>look up synopses and discussions of it online when i finished
>all of the stuff i missed was easily communicated with less intense verbiage than in the primary text

What the fuck is the point in writing so obscure and academic? What's wrong with him? Am I a brainlet for not getting it on the first read? Why the hell should I have to read something like an essay more than once to get it? What was the point in being so needlessly long and verbose if all of that bullshit on music could've been communicated in a simpler way? Isn't the point of language to make communication easier rather than harder? Fuck this stupid little manlet

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