R. M. Hare is pessimistic: “Nothing is so difficult in philosophical writing as to get people to be sympathetic enough to what one is saying to understand what it is. Perhaps nobody will ever understand a philosophical book [or view] of any depth without, initially, believing it, or at least suspending his disbelief. Otherwise he will never grasp what the writer is trying to convey.” [1]
Schopenhauer says something—unsurprisingly—very pessimistic indeed on this matter. Perhaps even to the point of rudeness or arrogance towards the layperson: “Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
It seems that Schopenhauer often not only did not expect to be understood but he, at least sometimes, completely gave up on it.
Of course, he had his own faults but that’s another matter.
failures of communication 2
Schopenhauer says something—unsurprisingly—very pessimistic indeed on this matter. Perhaps even to the point of rudeness or arrogance towards the layperson: “Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
It seems that Schopenhauer often not only did not expect to be understood but he, at least sometimes, completely gave up on it.
Of course, he had his own faults but that’s another matter.