{"id":1455,"date":"2005-02-10T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T19:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2005-02-10T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T19:04:57","slug":"totalitarian-tidying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"totalitarian tidying."},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was calling a friend to see if she knew any Chinese demographers, and she said, “I’m just riffling through my email, and I see that incomplete<\/em> statistics show there were 200 executions in China — in the two weeks leading up to the Lunar New Year.”<\/p>\n\n

“What!” I said, “What was so special?”<\/p>\n\n

“Oh, I think they just wanted to get it all done before the holidays.”<\/p>\n\n

She also tells me — apropos demography — that Mao thought Malthus was a Capitalist plot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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