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• 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• in recent years cultural identity has been replaced by political identity.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