[lurker]

You're struggling with his articles and rereading paragraphs because TLP's writing style is designed to mimic the message contained therein, which is invariably to lead you along a concept and path you're already familiar with, know the outcome of, and know how to feel about and understand, only to show you a starkly different conclusion - or, more accurately, a starkly different premise for the underlying behavior you thought you had sorted. The sudden shift in the reasoning echoes the sudden shift in your understanding brought about by the article - one that is so massively jarring and initially nonsensical because it conflicts with an understanding you already had internalized, which is a fancy way of saying you had accepted that premise as being so fundamentally true it was beyond the need for active logical parsing.

And yes, if you're rereading this paragraph, it's for you.