The Structure of Discourse as a Counting Mechanism

Baidu understands that the state, although it purports to seek a totalizing count of every entity in the world, sustains itself only by ensuring at a structural logical level that that count is always incomplete. If the count were ever complete, there'd be no need for the state as a counting operation to do its thing. So there's always something more to be counted. And that's why in the field of identity politics that is so endemic to our world today, you have to be very careful about what you ask for. Is representation of your identity group exactly what you want? I can tell you it's exactly what the state wants you to want. It absolutely wants you to