"Morality, religion, metaphysics, and all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness no longer seem to be independent...men who develop their material production and their material relationships alter their thinking and the products of their thinking along with their real existence. Consciousness does not determine life, but life determines consciousness. In the first view the starting point is consciousness taken as a living individual; in the second it is the real living individuals themselves as they exist in real life, and consciousness is considered only as their consciousness" (Marx 112).
This passage really messed with my mind. It is almost as if Marx is questioning and tempering with reality. What is consciousness? What is awareness? I keep thinking of The Matrix trilogy. The humans of that world are conscious, but their level of consciousness does not perceive reality. Their lives determine their consciousness. They see only what they are programmed to see, not what really is. If you can't trust your own consciousness, what can you trust? Consciousness is all a person has to maintain his perception of reality.
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