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Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: My Experience of China Today (redsails.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As for the West, at an everyday level people are neither interested in nor afraid of the West. It rarely comes into discussions, and the news outlets may have an item from time to time but it is well down the main page on the website. In other words, for ordinary people the West has become irrelevant.

heh.

The whole section on optimism really hits me. Imagine feeling optimistic about the place you live, and where it's going. Must be like a dream.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

everything in the United States has gotten progressively worse for as long as I've been alive, and for someone my age in China the exact opposite is true

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Indeed, I think about this a lot actually. It's incredibly depressing to live in a society that's spiralling the drain. Basically, the best most people in the west can hope for is that things don't get worse at too fast a pace. This is the source of the nihilism we see gripping western society. There's no real vision for the future and no hope.