One of the most celebrated scientists of our time, Claude Shannon of Bell Telephone Labs dveloped the idea that information is never pure but comes with a great deal of noise attached.As the noise grows, the effort required to separate information from such noise gets progressively greater.When noise is intentionally commingled with information,information can be fatally compromised.
Whether Rove and his lackeys in the Republican Party apparatus are using Shannon’s ideas, I haven’t the vaguest.But, the way they constantly strew distractions like Abortion,Terri Schiavo,and other red meat issues near and dear to their fundamentalist base.
Countering this would require us to focus on the underlying issues that they want to obfuscate.I hope we have the experts on our side to do what is necessary.
