Attempt to maintain concentration!

Most regrettable are the fears of the walls of text, but as unfortunate as the affliction is, it nevertheless plagues many of our beleaguered comrades and fellow human beings. As time has gone by, many of us have found ourselves predictably unnerved at many works of academia including but not limited to journals, textbooks, novels and even newspapers. To our sense of perception, some of these works of literature are truly of said nature, even the most learned of people would opt to skim rather than to read. But something is missing here. Despite the satirical nature of this article, it has provoked a thought that is common among the nation today and is steadily growing more and more prevalent. Americans as we know them are by the majority, poorly literate. It is a sad assumption and one that is stated with deep regret but one that may be true nonetheless. Said wall of text can be intimidating to normal readers, but to the average American, this can translate to something past intimidation and closer to fear. Do you believe Americans fear the text? Or are they simply too lazy to cope?

Or maybe we really should not be reading books this convoluted. It seems to me that on the flip side, much of what we read may have the visage of a ghastly villain, one that threatens the very face of the modern man. Various Academic Journals, so keen to impress their peers and seniors, they leave behind a trail of despair as the hapless students attempt to crawl through its contents. Our legal documents are the worst of the worst. In a world with so few who are familiar with taxation and laws, we are forever at the mercy of these emotionless sheets of torture. The text, oh lord the text, it immolates the mind to contemplate and decipher the lot. It seems simplicity is forever lost among them as it is impossible to understand half of what they say without consulting the internet. It is a sad day for humanity when our skills in the English language amount to little when opposed by such confounding language. Enough, I can entertain this thought no longer. Let the long books come, but leave be the infuriating world of complex language made only for the sake of complexity.

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