Do you want to study it? If not that's also fine, but I think that is your anxiety.
Some of it, yeah. I've been reading and enjoying Baudrillard recently and I'm enjoying this Monsieur Dupont thing atm.
I think part of it's that the diagnosis is often much more convincing than the proposed solutions. You read something like
Capitalist Realism and recognise the issues he's pointing out then you get to the "Marxist Supernanny" thing and the stuff about rationing at the end and think "Dunno about that, mate". And it feels like that process over and over when I read theory, which is partly what the thread's about. The idea of lots of venting and not much else.
A similar thing occurred to me watching a Spielberg interview after watching
Munich the other night
. He said he wasn't trying to answer questions with the film, just raise them, which is fine, but we generally seem to raise a lot more questions than we even attempt to answer. Surely someone has to make a decision or judgement at some point? In that sense, I kind of admire Vollmann for trying to come up with a "moral calculus for the justification of violence". You're sticking your neck out attempting something like that.