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Translation: Wei Zhou on National Optimism vs Personal Pessimism Posted by Josh Rudolph | Dec 28, 2020 An essay by writer Wei Zhou (@维舟) published to WeChat last week describes a dissonant way of thinking increasingly common in China, in which people are able to maintain optimism about the state and trajectory of the nation despite experiencing sustained personal hardships that would appear to lead towards pessimism. The A Bilibili user named “speedymotor” (@飞奔的马达), after a long time spent scrutinizing videos, made an interesting observation: “For all videos on macro-level...