@matigo Did yer dad go bald?
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt…. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.
—George Orwell
Word lovers like me are called logophiles. I wonder if there is an equivalent word for a lover of numbers.
@matigo Perhaps they are the more number-centric geek type, rather than the word-centric nerd type. Probably some of them are on the 'spectrum'.