Constantly bewailing on Nostr: “Population statistics was born as a way to exercise power over people-first those ...

“Population statistics was born as a way to exercise power over people-first those whom we mistrusted the most and then everyone else. First, we counted those in jails and insane asylums, then those in colonies (the first censuses were done in Peru, Virginia, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and New York), then minorities, and then the entire population.”