in a way yes, because my academic background is in philosophy and I am very used to the idea that you should never talk about a topic if you haven't read some relevant pieces of work within the genealogy of whatever you're doing. because philosophy especially, but writing in general really, is basically just a very long and abstract conversation and you need to be a good listener before you can be a good talker. but there is always so much to read and at a certain point it becomes unproductive to get bogged down in like, being able to cite all the right things.