State of Things

It has been weeks, since something big happened inside China. President Xi has finally gotten hold of what he always wants, indisputable, unstoppable power upon China. This move has essentially wiped clean 100 years of struggle of my people. Yet all I can hear is silence. It is as if all Chinese has become blind and deaf. Life, goes on.
This silence in fact happens much earlier.
Right after Xi took power, he effectively destroyed objective media, newspapers, TV stations, internet outlets, even independent writers and intellectuals. Then he built a stronger internet censorship machine, upon human censors, AIs, willingly cooperative domestic internet ISPs and companies. After that, he used corruption as an excuse to punish those within the party who might be trouble to whatever he was planning. People love to see lawless display of state power against those who profit from political connections. It was all planned out and executed like a precise battle plan. And most of us has waken up into a nightmare and realized this has been his plan all along.
Now it is quite hopeless to be honest. There is no one politically strong enough to challenge Xi, both within and outside the party. Critics have been warned, jailed or lost his or her voice or platform. Advances in AI and data mining have silenced the rest of my people, there is nothing the state does not know. Your private chat massages, your location histories, your online presents, even your shopping history. Xi must love reading 1984. It is worse than soviet union. Under both psychological and realistic pressures, my people just shut up. Let's be honest most people just don't care anymore. As long as things go as usual. Do things go as usual?
Mostly yes.
As long as economy goes well, as long as housing market keeps going, as long as people can still live and breath under reasonable conditions, yes, things will go as usual. But will it last?
Not necessarily.
Concentrated power does not always yield reasonable decisions. In fact, it mostly yields bad decisions. Because no one can criticize, no bad news, no bad data. The system can not fix itself without right data. It may be alright at the moment, but what about under stress, what about another recession?
It has never been so easy to inter change information in the history of human race. Yet it has never been so hard and dangerous to criticize in China in like 50 years. Without some healthy amount of negative feedback, the system would inevitably fail. After all from what we can see, Xi has never been as smart as Putin. Putin knows his people, Xi just silence them.
So what does it mean for us, people who still live in China and have a life here. I have little hope. Under current toxic environment, I can see little hope. It is after all against party's agenda to politically educate people. People has no desire to learn how to govern themselves. I can see generations of suffering before people can have a voice, before a healthy political system can rise from ashes.
After all, what other communist countries ends up like? Do we, the Chinese are so different from North Korea, or soviet union? Not likely.
But hey, it's golden times, to get rich on politically connections, on corruptions and other disgusting means. There is no doubt about that. As long as you can bear the look of yourself in the mirror, or think long and hard in history perspective. But I guess they are of no problems, we are always nihilistic anyways.