# 20210925 - consciousness is itself a bad idea. It assumes that you know true consciousness outside of your material conditions - you probably don’t know why you believe what you believe, it’s probably overdetermined - narrativising this is a postiori, that is that it’s a way to attempt to understand yourself - china has a business cycle and is one of the most productive economies in the world - the Chinese state is not independent from capital - in recent years cultural identity has been replaced by political identity. topics of morality etc. are confused for political ones