My reaction in the form of response

In Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern  he starts off suggesting the most comprehensible of topics like strokes of words brushing the paper keeping me inclined and comfortable. I can relate. He is talking about the world, our world, the one we share and are faced with the same problems. He then quickly looses me in his rampage of other topics in this unimaginable newspaper where just about every modern idea of man is addressed. I can’t even think of a newspaper where so much is achieved in the pages. Again talking about something we hold in common the same world, but such a radically different view and way of explanation. This is the theme that I am consistently picking up from his work; this consistency to challenge me beyond all challenges, and force me to keep up with his way of thinking. If I misunderstand the next sentence, and then the next paragraph pretty soon my un-relentlessness to crave an understanding is long gone.

His writing reminds me of the way I write. I feel like I get a point across with the way I choose to explain something that makes it ever so clear to my audience, but when I get my corrections I have failed. I see that not only are my original thoughts judged as wrong, but my efforts of trying are no longer reinforced.

I want to understand where Latour is coming from. I just have been thinking this way for 22 years and have learned subtle ways to change my view finder, but never so much as to suggest that everything I know about science is not what science really is.

Why does Latour admit that the work of him and his colleagues remains incomprehensible? Who is his audience? How is it that he can title his piece We Have Never Been Modern, and then at the end write that we are modern?!!

 Then he continues on about global warming just as he started out doing so. My thought is that if he was trying to talk about global warming the entire time he added many unnecessary thoughts. I think he is looking at global warming in a different way, but to say we have never been modern makes no sense because we have had to be modern to get the world in the condition that it is currently in.