You are not alone. I bailed out after only a few graphs. I parsed "...Cities are the spaces where those without power get to make a history and a culture, there

You are not alone. I bailed out after only a few graphs. I parsed "...Cities are the spaces where those without power get to make a history and a culture, thereby making their powerlessness complex..." a few times, then moved on, thinking it would clear up later. It did not. I wasn't sure I agreed with the author or not. I wasn't sure whether "complex" was being used as an adjective or a noun. After a bit more of that nonsense, I decided it wasn't worth figuring out. This is really simple. Write for your grandma. It's great that you've absorbed some rather complex ideas in your travels, and we'd love to hear about them. But if you can't write for your grandma, you shouldn't be writing for a large audience. I'll go even further and say that even if you're writing for an audience who is up to speed on whatever it is you like going on about, you should still back-track on some of the more nuanced topics and explain it like I'm 5. Many times a group of professionals will all think they have the same understanding of a subject -- until they actually start expounding on it.