(3) Base Camp

Thankfully, the actual text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights respects your human right to not be confused. This document is a pretty easy read, for a few reasons…

• Structure: everyone loves lists. The UDHR is preformatted into 30 short and sweet numbered articles. It's impossible to get lost.
• Brevity: in terms of bang-for-buck significance, the UDHR ranks high in the pantheon of historical texts. This document pretty much defines what it means to be human in under 2,000 words. Compare that to Ulysses, which takes around 800 pages to describe a single day of drinking, farting, and sex. Advantage, UDHR.
• Simplicity: the UDHR basically says exactly what it means, leaving minimal room for interpretation and using plain language. This was pretty important since dozens of countries had to agree on the exact wording of the final text.

Overall, reading this text shouldn't give you too much difficulty. If it does, you can figure it out.

After all, all human beings "are endowed with reason" (1.2).