i wanna be familiar with the concepts in classic political philosophy but holy shit i cannot handle reading the fucking boring shit. like its important historically and for development and ideas and blah blah but holy shit its actually the worst dude

meanwhile decolonial theory is like hell yeah!!! thats my shit!!! but like it feels irresponsible to read without understanding more completely understanding prior works that inform ideas and ideologies that are being criticized and deconstrcuted

like am i almost positive that many works i have read misrepresent classic political philosophers and like yeah thats bad? but at the same time kinda shrug my dude. like its never really important to their argument and im always skeptical of the characterization soo....

idk if im reading like a more direct refuation then its prob important, like im prolly gonna want to brush up on hobbes before reading "against his-story, against leviathan!", but if its more of a passive then ig idrc