It might have been, I honestly don't remember, maybe it was Jay? Probably you though, if you're connecting it to my comment lol. Resonated with me, and is reason I've always put off reading much philosophy
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Oh and I think you're right about the disorienting thing. Can never be sure it's not just cope on my part for failing to grasp something, but starting to suspect not the case. The recent exception has been praxeology, which I've not even read a full book on (so I should probably shut up), which seems to embrace reducing things to first princinples WHILE staying grounded or plain enough that I can mostly follow.
I'm still not further (like at all) than where I originally was when writing this post 🤣
though the ideas are swimming around, morphing and connecting to different ideas I already have.
I do wonder if there will be a point where I suddenly understand and reality shatters, dunno what happens then.
Its a procrastionation hobby, cautiously tipptoing into the realm of productive insantity 💀
I don't know wth i'm doing or why with this stuff. The authors
1) Write intentionally obscure
2) Assume you have read whatever they reference, because they are such sophistimicated philosophers and you should be as well. Bringing new ideas with little to no introduction
3) do (1) with an intent to induce a delerium in the reader
4) Write about ideas that they together may have contradicting opinions about
I can't help but laugh, be pissed off at myself and be in awe/fascination. Strikes my attention, there's a gravity to it.
Half of me attempts to push through the opacity. The other half pulls away, self talking "this is going to be a massive waste of time"
At least there's some enjoying the theater of it all and my own publically yielding to the delerium.
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I don't think you should worry about not reading a full book. I've darted around through many books over the past six months learning a lot but not finishing any of them and coming back to them when I'm curious again. You're just kind of meandering around different ideas and topics, trying to build up a pile of ideas before you can come back to the source of interest. I've only recently started reading semi-frequently because I recognized that I had an interest and affinity to the ideas.
I think if you're not reading for a test, take your time, leave for a bit to digest/integrate what you read, go to something else and then come back to it later on.