So if we don't understand, it's our fault not the writer? Try this bit of academia and see how far you get and how demeaned you feel.

'If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to “normalize” formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.'

What was I reading about shovels and ditches?